Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

55 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Jan. 8, 2019

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.

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

55 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Jan. 8, 2019

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
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.
Producers ARTE, Flach Films, RTBF, LCP
Original title Salman Rushdie : la mort aux trousses
Directors William Karel
Writers William Karel

Cast

Beulah Borr

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Salman Rushdie

as Self - Writer

Ruhollah Khomeini

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Abdullah al Ahdal

as Self - Imam (archive footage)

Isabelle Adjani

as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Ali Khamenei

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hitoshi Igarashi

as Self - Translator (archive footage)

Bono

as Self - Musician (archive footage)

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)