Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail (2019)

6.6/10 55 min 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.

Cast

Salman Rushdie

Self - Writer

Ruhollah Khomeini

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Isabelle Adjani

Self - Actress (archive footage)

Ali Khamenei

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Bono

Self - Musician (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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