Rosewater Art House Thursday Independent Cinema - Directed by Jon Stewart, Starring Gabriel Garcia Marquez Thursday - December 18, 2014 - 7:00 PM Rated : R, 1 hr 43 mi $5 Rosewater is based on The New York Times best-selling memoir Then They Came for Me: A Familys Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival, written by Maziar Bahari. The film marks the directorial debut of The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, and stars Gael García Bernal. Rosewater follows the Tehran-born Bahari, a broadcast journalist with Canadian citizenship. In June 2009, Bahari returned to Iran to interview Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who was the prime challenger to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As Mousavis supporters rose up to protest Ahmadinejads victory declaration hours before the polls closed, Bahari endured personal risk by sending footage of the street riots to the BBC. Bahari was arrested by police, led by a man identifying himself only as Rosewater, who tortured and interrogated him over the next 118 days. With Baharis wife leading an international campaign to have her husband freed, and Western media outlets keeping the story alive, Iranian authorities released Bahari on $300,000 bail and the promise he would act as a spy for the government.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 14:14:20 +0000
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