Beauty Will Save the World

Beauty Will Save the World

2003•1h 3m•6.0/10

Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.0/10(1)

BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD charts the journey of 19 year old Tecca Zendik, a contestant in the Miss Net World contest, Libya's first every beauty competition. Colonel Muammar Qaddafi hosts this competition and the film includes extraordinary footage of the Colonel. Tecca's story reveals an incredible conclusion no-one could have guessed when private jests transported the beauties to the country feared by the West in the 1980's.

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Production

Pietra Brettkelly for The TV Set, Bullseye Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi

Omar Harfouch

Teca Zendick

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

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