ROSEWATER

Synopsis Rosewater (2014) Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 days. The journalist Maziar Bahari was blindfolded and interrogated for 4 months in Evin prison in Iran, while the only distinguishable feature about his captor is the distinct smell of rosewater. An interview and sketch that Maziar did with a journalist on The Daily Show (1996) was used as evidence that Maziar was a spy and in communication with the American government and the CIA. ??abivians Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination Budget: $5,000,000 (estimated) Worldwide Gross: $3,171,593 Soundtrack: New Bloom (Written by Mahdyar Aghajani)