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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
FR
Genres:
Documentary, TV Movie
Release:
January 2019
Production:
ARTE, RTBF, Flach Film
Cast:
Beulah Borr, Salman Rushdie, Ruhollah Khomeini, Abdullah al Ahdal, Isabelle Adjani, Ali Khamenei, Hitoshi Igarashi, Bono, Kamal Kharazi, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Larry David, Lin-Manuel Miranda, F. Murray Abraham
Tags:
freedom of speech, biography, religious fundamentalism, 1980s, portrait of an artist, fatwa, controversial artist, terrorist threat, celebrity interview, islamism, religious belief
