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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

January 8, 2019
55m
Documentary
TV Movie
Critics
85/100
Story
82/100
Acting
88/100
Cinematography
90/100
Soundtrack
80/100

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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Details

Director
William Karel
Cast
Beulah Borr, Salman Rushdie, Ruhollah Khomeini, Abdullah al Ahdal, Isabelle Adjani, Ali Khamenei, Hitoshi Igarashi, Bono, Kamal Kharazi, Donald Trump
Release Date
January 8, 2019
Production
ARTE, RTBF, Flach Film

Rating Distribution

User Ratings

5 Stars65%
1235
4 Stars25%
475
3 Stars8%
152
2 Stars2%
38
1 Stars0%
0
Total: 1,900 ratings

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