In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Gael García Bernal
as Maziar Bahari
Shohreh Aghdashloo
as Moloojoon
Jason Jones
as Jason Jones
Haluk Bilginer
as Baba Akbar
Nasser Faris
as Haj Agha
Andrew Gower
as Jimmy the avid editor
Kim Bodnia
as Javadi (Rosewater)
Dimitri Leonidas
as Davood
Golshifteh Farahani
as Maryam
Claire Foy
as Paola
Amir El-Masry
as Alireza
Kambiz Hosseini
as Hassan
