Rosewater

Rosewater
  • Release date: 27 Nov 2014
  • Release year: 2014
  • Runtime: 103 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: prison, journalism, hijab, reference to mahmoud ahmedinejad, based on true story, cameo, kurdistan workers party, journalist, iran, protest
Plot:
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 (1996) was used as evidence that Maziar was a spy and in communication with the American government and the CIA.
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