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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

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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…

DirectorWilliam Karel

WriterWilliam Karel

ProducersAdam Leibovitz·Jean-François Lepetit

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Cast · Directed by William Karel

Beulah Borr

Self - Narrator (voice)

Salman Rushdie

Self - Writer

Ruhollah Khomeini

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Abdullah al Ahdal

Self - Imam (archive footage)

Isabelle Adjani

Self - Actress (archive footage)

Ali Khamenei

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hitoshi Igarashi

Self - Translator (archive footage)

Bono

Self - Musician (archive footage)

Kamal Kharazi

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Donald Trump

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Barack Obama

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Larry David

Larry David (archive footage)

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Is Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail based on a true story?

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