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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

6.6 2019 55m
DocumentaryTV Movie

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

VISUAL ARCHIVE

Selected stills from the film

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CAST

The people behind the story

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Beulah BorrSelf - Narrator (voice)
Salman Rushdie
Salman RushdieSelf - Writer
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah KhomeiniSelf - Politician (archive footage)
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Abdullah al AhdalSelf - Imam (archive footage)
Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle AdjaniSelf - Actress (archive footage)
Ali Khamenei
Ali KhameneiSelf - Politician (archive footage)
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Hitoshi IgarashiSelf - Translator (archive footage)
Bono
BonoSelf - Musician (archive footage)
CURATED SCREEN

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