Rosewater (2014) on Netflix
Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari covers Iran's 2009 presidential election for Newsweek and gives a satirical television interview. Iranian authorities detain him as a suspected spy.
- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb6.6/1011,194 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes76%
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Plot summary
Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 days. The journalist Maziar Bahari was blindfolded and interrogated for 4 months in Evin prison in Iran, while the only distinguishable feature about his captor is the distinct smell of rosewater. An interview and sketch that Maziar did with a journalist on The Daily Show was used as evidence that Maziar was a spy and in communication with the American government and the CIA.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rosewater (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Because of the film's content, Iran's state TV accused director Jon Stewart of being funded by Zionists and of working with the CIA.
- The film is based on journalist Maziar Bahari's 2009 imprisonment in Iran, where authorities used his interview on The Daily Show as evidence he was in contact with an American spy.
