Rosewater (Polit-Drama/Thriller von Jon Stewart)

[StS]

Director: Jon Stewart
Screenwriter: Jon Stewart
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Haluk Bilginer, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Golshifteh Farahani, Claire Foy

"Rosewater" is based on The New York Times best-selling memoir "Then They Came for Me: A Family's 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 Mousavi's supporters rose up to protest Ahmadinejad's 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 Bahari's 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.

Trailer:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=122398

[Moonshade]

Das ist aber ein ernstes und grimmiges Debüt für den Funnyman.
Finde ich interessant, das hat was.

[StS]

Das ist aber ein ernstes und grimmiges Debüt für den Funnyman.
Finde ich interessant, das hat was.

Naja, er ist ja auch sehr politisch - daher passt das schon irgendwo.  ;)
Der betreffende Herr war mehrfach in seiner Show - daher ist er auf die Idee gekommen.

Erste Reviews lesen sich "solide", z.B..
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/rosewater/review/728113