Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2019-01-08
Runtime: 55 mins
Director: William Karel
Writer: William Karel
Spoken language: العربية, English, Français, فارسی
Genres: Documentary, TV Movie
Original title: Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Production Companies: ARTE, RTBF, Flach Film
Production Countries: Belgium, France
Cast
Beulah Borr
Salman Rushdie
Ruhollah Khomeini
Abdullah al Ahdal
Isabelle Adjani
Ali Khamenei
Hitoshi Igarashi
Bono
Kamal Kharazi
Donald Trump
Barack Obama
Larry David
Lin-Manuel Miranda
F. Murray Abraham
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