Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail - FilmFreak

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail - 2019 6.6

Overview:

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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