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Stewarts Rosewater captures a real-life war of wills in an Iranian prison
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Kim Bodnia, left, portrays the persecutor who interrogates Maziar Bahari, played by Gael Garcia Bernal in the film, “Rosewater.” The movie is the directing debut for Jon Stewart who adapted Bahari’s memoir for the big screen.
Maziar Bahari was a reporter in the right place at the right time. An Iranian ex-pat turned Western journalist, he toted a video camera and moved with smiling, cautious ease through his native land — catching up with his mom, careful not to expose himself or his sources as Iran’s 2009 elections turned into the abortive “Green Revolution.” But he wasn’t careful enough.