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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

6.6/ 10201955m

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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.

Directed by William Karel

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The cast

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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)