Movie

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

2019★ 6.6 · 555mDocumentaryTV 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.

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Cast

F. Murray Abraham
as Ayatollah (archive footage)

Isabelle Adjani
as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Donald Trump
as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Lin-Manuel Miranda
as Lin-Manuel Miranda (archive footage)

Larry David
as Larry David (archive footage)

Barack Obama
as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Bono
as Self - Musician (archive footage)

علی خامنه‌ای
as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Salman Rushdie
as Self - Writer

Ruhollah Khomeini
as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hitoshi Igarashi
as Self - Translator (archive footage)

Beulah Borr
as Self - Narrator (voice)