12 Mar 2001
Visconti: La verdad del melodrama
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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
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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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)
Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel Miranda (archive footage)
F. Murray Abraham Ayatollah (archive footage)
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