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Shadows of a Leader: Qaddafi's Female Bodyguards

7.0 / 10
2004
60 min
Documentary

The documentary investigates the phenomenon of Qaddafi's elite female bodyguard corps and the tensions these women embody: tensions between Islam, modernisation in a nomadic society, a militarist feminism and an urban dictatorship.