In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Released: Nov 07, 2014
Runtime: 103 minutes
Genre: Drama
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jason Jones, Haluk Bilginer, Nasser Faris, Andrew Gower
Crew: Scott Rudin (Producer), Maziar Bahari (Story), Aimee Molloy (Story), Atilla Salih Yücer (Producer), Bobby Bukowski (Director of Photography), Jon Stewart (Screenplay)