Info

The Satanic Verses Affair (2009)

Name: The Satanic Verses Affair
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013-04-04T13:34:08+02:00
Cast: Salman Rushdie

Documentary | 90 minutes

-
No votes yet

+ My vote

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 90 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Janice Sutherland

Stars: Salman Rushdie

This movie is not available on US streaming services.

The Satanic Verses Affair plot

Twenty years ago, writer Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million-pound bounty on his head. His novel 'The Devil's Verses' caused riots all over the Muslim world. Iran's religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa (a legal opinion in Islam) on him and efficiently sentenced Rushdie to death. Never before had a novel caused an international diplomatic crisis of such magnitude, and never before had a foreign government publicly called for the murder of a citizen of another country. This documentary looks back on the extraordinary events that followed the book's publication, and on the decade-long campaign to have the fatwa lifted.