Rosewater

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Movie
German title Rosewater
Original title Rosewater
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 103 minutes
Rod
Director Jon Stewart
script Jon Stewart
production Jon Stewart, Gigi Pritzker, Scott Rudin
music Howard Shore
camera Bobby Bukowski
cut Jay Rabinowitz
occupation

Rosewater is a2014political drama based on the memoir Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy. Jon Stewart is the director , writer and producer . The film tells the true story of the Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari, whois supposed to report on the Iranian presidential election in 2009 in Tehran .

content

In the Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi will stand against the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . The country is also home to 42-year-old journalist Maziar Bahari, who traveled from London to meet and interview Moussavi. When Ahmadinejad had himself declared the winner hours before the end of the election, protests and attacks broke out on the streets of Iran. In the course of these riots, Bahari, who recorded the whole thing with his camera, was arrested by the police and held for 118 days. While in custody, he was repeatedly interrogated under brutal torture until his wife, with the support of Western media, managed to obtain his release.

review

The film was largely positively received internationally. He received Metacritic an aggregate score of 67/100 and Rotten Tomatoes 77%.

In Die Presse, Oliver Grimm praised the acting performance of leading actor Gael García Bernal as "fabulous" and Kim Bodnia would also portray the torturer Javadi as "great". Overall, the film is an ingenious consideration of repression in totalitarian regimes using the example of Iran. However, he finds the “representation of the political power of social media” somewhat naive.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ROSEWATER. BBFC , accessed November 15, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Howard Shore Scoring Jon Stewart's 'Rosewater'. In: Film Music Reporter. June 10, 2014, accessed November 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Pamela McClintock: Toronto: Jon Stewart to Pitch 'Rosewater,' Share First Footage (Exclusive). In: The Hollywood Reporter . Prometheus Global Media , March 9, 2013, accessed November 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Frank Herrmann: "Rosewater": Torturers listen when they experience something erotic. In: derStandard.at . Der Standard , November 12, 2014, accessed November 15, 2016 .
  5. ^ Rosewater Reviews. In: Metacritic . CBS Interactive Inc. , accessed November 23, 2016 .
  6. ^ Rosewater (2014). In: Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango, accessed November 23, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Oliver Grimm: The loneliness of the torturers. In: The press . Styria Media Group , November 18, 2014, accessed November 22, 2016 .