Synopsis

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 was used as evidence that Maziar was a spy and in communication with the American government and the CIA.
Jon Stewart
Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas, Haluk Bilginer
07 Nov 2014 (USA)
1 win & 1 nomination.tt2752688 , Prison, Biography, Reporter, Interrogation, Iran, American Spy