Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

  • Documentary
  • TV Movie
1/8/2019
55

Storyline

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.

Director:
William Karel
Writer:
William Karel
  • freedom of speech
  • biography
  • religious fundamentalism
  • 1980s
  • portrait of an artist
  • fatwa
  • controversial artist
  • terrorist threat
  • celebrity interview
  • islamism
  • religious belief

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)

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