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Feature film — 2019

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail (2019)

6.60h 55mDocumentary — TV Movie

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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A high-signal pick with 5 votes.

ARTE / RTBF / Flach Film

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Director: William Karel

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Cast & crew

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Beulah Borr

Self - Narrator (voice)

Salman Rushdie as Self - Writer

Salman Rushdie

Self - Writer

Ruhollah Khomeini as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Ruhollah Khomeini

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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Abdullah al Ahdal

Self - Imam (archive footage)

Isabelle Adjani as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Isabelle Adjani

Self - Actress (archive footage)

Ali Khamenei as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Ali Khamenei

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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Hitoshi Igarashi

Self - Translator (archive footage)

Bono as Self - Musician (archive footage)

Bono

Self - Musician (archive footage)

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Kamal Kharazi

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Donald Trump as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Donald Trump

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Barack Obama as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Barack Obama

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Larry David as Larry David (archive footage)

Larry David

Larry David (archive footage)

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