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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

2019•55m•6.6/10
DocumentaryTV Movie

Ratings

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6.6/10(5)

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump's United States of America.

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Production

ARTE, RTBF, Flach Film

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Beulah Borr

Self - Narrator (voice)

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Self - Writer

Ruhollah Khomeini

Ruhollah Khomeini

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Abdullah al Ahdal

Self - Imam (archive footage)

Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani

Self - Actress (archive footage)

Ali Khamenei

Ali Khamenei

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hitoshi Igarashi

Self - Translator (archive footage)

Bono

Bono

Self - Musician (archive footage)

Kamal Kharazi

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Donald Trump

Donald Trump

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Larry David

Larry David

Larry David (archive footage)

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda (archive footage)

F. Murray Abraham

F. Murray Abraham

Ayatollah (archive footage)

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