Rosewater is a movie directed by Jon Stewart in 2014 and based on the book Rosewater: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy, first published in 2011. The movie features Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas, Haluk Bilginer, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Golshifteh Farahani, and others.
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Storyline
In 2009, London-based Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained in Iran after he reports on violence against protesters of the country’s presidential election, as well as giving a satirical interview with Jason Jones of The Daily Show. While his pregnant fiancée waits for him, Bahari spends 118 days at Evin Prison being brutally interrogated.
Movie vs Book
Year
2014
Minutes
103
Movie Rate
6.60
Source: IMDb
Year
2011
Pages
400
Book Rate
8.20
S: Goodreads
Book
Rosewater
Original title: Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Subtitle: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Author: Maziar Bahari, Aimee Molloy
Country: Canada
First published in: 2011
Length: 400 pages
Genre: Biography
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