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Watch Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail (2019) Official Trailer
6.6 / 10 IMDb January 8, 2019 0h 55m
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
Runtime
0h 55m
Release Date
January 8, 2019
Genre
Documentary, TV Movie
Status
Released
Languages
Arabic, English, French, Persian
Country
Belgium, France
Writers
Producers
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Cast
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Beulah Borr
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Salman Rushdie
as Self - Writer
Ruhollah Khomeini
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
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Abdullah al Ahdal
as Self - Imam (archive footage)
Isabelle Adjani
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
Ali Khamenei
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
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Hitoshi Igarashi
as Self - Translator (archive footage)
Bono
as Self - Musician (archive footage)
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Kamal Kharazi
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Donald Trump
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Barack Obama
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Larry David
as Larry David (archive footage)
Lin-Manuel Miranda
as Lin-Manuel Miranda (archive footage)
F. Murray Abraham
as Ayatollah (archive footage)
Production Companies
ARTE
RTBFFlach Film
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