JINNAH
Pakistan-England

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     Drama that accompanies the life of the founder of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1876-1948), made in remembrance of fifty years from his death. In 1947, India had declared independence from the British government. The state of Pakistan, the first to be established as a country for Moslems, was instituted painfully.
      Jinnah, responsible for founding the country, had dreamed of this for a long while, but died only one year after the great ambition of his people had become reality. On his way to the hospital, his life begins to ebb. In a coma, he remembers the dilemmas and triumphs of his life, his ideals, happy moments and the tragedy of the death of his young wife.
     As from life as political leader, the script follows along with the turbulent history of separatism in India, intrigues, and the final debate between Vice-Roy Lord Mountbatten, Jinnah, Gandhi, and Nehru. And reveals Jinnah's dream of idealism, divided between a will to free his people and the hard reality of the maneuvers and political moves.

   
 
Director : Jamil Dehlavi
Screenplay : Jamil Dehlavi, Akbar Ahmed
Cinematographer : Nic Knowland
Edition : Robert Reitano, Paul Hodgson
Cast : Chistopher Lee, James Fox, Maria Aitike, Sashi Kapoor, Richard Lintern, Shireen Shah, Indira Varma
Producer : Jamil Dehlavi
Production : Dehlavi Films, St.
World Sales : Dehlavi Films, St. Saint Martin's Chapel, 108 Bayham Street, London NW1 0BD, England
Tel.: 44 171 482 34 33
Fax: 44 171 482 20 15
  Col., 110min., 1998
 

Born in Calcutta, in India. Son of a Pakistan diplomat and a French mother, he often travelled between Asia and Europe. He graduated from Oxford before studying film-making at Columbia University, in New York. He directed his first film Towers of Silence in 1975. He then made the controversial Blood of Hussain, in 1980, an abstract essay on tyranny. His main films are: Born of Fire, Immaculate Conception e A Passion in the Desert.