Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Jan 08 2019
•1h 55m
•Documentary, TV 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.
Cast
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Beulah Borr
Self - Narrator (voice)
Salman Rushdie
Self - Writer
Ruhollah Khomeini
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Abdullah al Ahdal
Self - Imam (archive footage)
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