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Born into one of the most affluent and powerful families of Pakistan,
raised with an awareness of her status and position, educated in western
elite universities Benazir Bhutto was elected as the first woman to
be head of government of an Islamic country in 1988. But while her
development seems continuous and consequent, her life was fraught
with problems and shaped by tragic. Only after her father, the former
head of state Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was executed by the military ruler
General Zia ul-Haq in April 1979, she decided to run herself for government
in her home country Pakistan. She managed to succeed twice and until
her assassination she has been trying for a third time. Philip Selkirk’s documentary traces the biography of Benazir Bhutto and depicts the permanent feud of the ”daughter of power” with the powerful establishment of her own country. In Selkirk’s film, Benazir Bhutto describes her route to the head of her country, she speaks about the humiliations and persecutions that she and her family had to suffer under the rule of Zia ul-Haq as well as under today’s military regime of General Pervez Musharraf and she gives us a nightmarish impression about the many years of military rule in Pakistan. In several very personal and frank interviews, Selkirk manages to speak to the former premier also about her misjudgements, her failures, the accusations of corruption against her and her husband and about the fact that many experts of the country have been calling her ”The Mother of the Taliban”. Other interviewees in the film are people whose lives were in one way or the other influenced by Bhutto, such as friends, advisors and former officers of the secret services as well as people like followers and opponents. With the help of rarely seen footage from the film archive of the Pakistan People’s Party, Philip Selkirk manages to document the fascinating history of Benazir Bhutto without gap from her childhood to the present. Benazir Bhutto – the daughter of power – was assassinated on December 27, 2007 in a combined suicide bomb attack and shooting during a political rally of her party, the Pakistan Peoples Party in Rawalpindi. Benazir Bhutto is dead. What is the future of Pakistan? "Benazir Bhutto" is available for screening! |
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