Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail (2019)

01/08/2019 (BE) • 55m

Documentary, TV Movie

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.

Top Billed 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)


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

freedom of speech

biography

religious fundamentalism

1980s

portrait of an artist

fatwa

controversial artist

terrorist threat

celebrity interview

islamism

religious belief

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