Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
6.6
5 votes
January 8, 2019
55m
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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Cast
Beulah Borr
Self - Narrator (voice)
Salman Rushdie
Self - Writer
Ruhollah Khomeini
Self - Politician (archive footage)Abdullah al Ahdal
Self - Imam (archive footage)
Isabelle Adjani
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Ali Khamenei
Self - Politician (archive footage)Hitoshi Igarashi
Self - Translator (archive footage)
Bono
Self - Musician (archive footage)Kamal Kharazi
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Donald Trump
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Barack Obama
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Larry David
Larry David (archive footage)
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda (archive footage)
F. Murray Abraham
Ayatollah (archive footage)More like this
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