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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

William Karel

2019

  • Documentary
  • TV Movie
6.6

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.

Cast & crew

  • William KarelDirector
  • Beulah BorrSelf - Narrator (voice)
  • Salman RushdieSelf - Writer
  • Ruhollah KhomeiniSelf - Politician (archive footage)
  • Abdullah al AhdalSelf - Imam (archive footage)
  • Isabelle AdjaniSelf - Actress (archive footage)
  • Ali KhameneiSelf - Politician (archive footage)
  • Hitoshi IgarashiSelf - Translator (archive footage)
  • BonoSelf - Musician (archive footage)

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