Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
2019An 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.
Acted in
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)