Watch the first trailer for Jon Stewart's directorial debut about a journalist imprisoned by the government of Iran: Rosewater.
We have previously been teased images of Jon Stewart’s expectedly harrowing directorial debut, Rosewater, but we now have our first trailer of from the true life story about a journalist who was imprisoned in Iran.
As the film that took Jon Stewart away from The Daily Show in the summer of 2013 to shoot, Rosewater adapts Maziar Bahari’s memoir entitled Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity And Survival, which chronicles his journey as a reporter who was arrested and held by the Iranian government for almost five months in 2009.
Bahari had arrived in Iran to cover the 2009 presidential election for BBC. The political event came under great scrutiny when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won by a large margin. Bahari submitted camera footage of the proceeding riots in Iran protesting the election, and as a result, he was detained by the Revolutionary Guard who interrogated and tortured him for 118 days. He was only released when he promised to play a spy for the Iranian government.
The film stars Gael Garcia Bernal as Bahari.
By the looks of the trailer, Rosewater could be a terrifying glimpse beyond the pale. The film opens in select cities on November 7, 2014.
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