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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

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.

Top Cast

  • Beulah Borr

    Beulah Borr

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Salman Rushdie

    Salman Rushdie

    Self - Writer

  • Ruhollah Khomeini

    Ruhollah Khomeini

    Self - Politician (archive footage)

  • Abdullah al Ahdal

    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

    Hitoshi Igarashi

    Self - Translator (archive footage)

  • Bono

    Bono

    Self - Musician (archive footage)

  • Kamal Kharazi

    Kamal Kharazi

    Self - Politician (archive footage)

Overview

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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