INFIDEL - a feature film
director/writer/producer: Cyrus Nowrasteh
Caviezel, Claudia Karvan and Hal Ozsan. The film's executive producer is Dinish D’Souza, who aided the film with his production company D'Souza Media.
It is the second collaboration between Nowrasteh and Caviezel, following “The Stoning of Soraya M “ (2008). The films deal with corruption and human rights abuses by the Iranian regime, and center on foreign journalists (played by Caviezel) whose rights are infringed upon and violated by the Iranian antagonists.
Doug Rawlins, an outspoken Christian American journalist, and blogger is kidnapped by members of the Hezbollah, sympathizers, while he is attending a Faith Conference at Al-Azhar University. Live broadcast TV round table discussion about Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. He is then taken to Baalbek, Lebanon, and tortured. Then smuggled to Iran, he is sold to the Revolutionary Guards, and put on trial for blasphemy, offending Islam, by claiming “There is one God” Jesus. Erroneous and phony spying charges have been also added for his wife Liz, a US State Department official, who tries to use her influence to get the American government involved. She wants the US government to get her husband back. However, she soon realizes that the American government will not get involved. Thus, she decides to go to Tehran to rescue him herself.
The film was theatrically released in the United States by Cloudburst Entertainment on September 18, 2020.
