Terror's Advocate (2007)

A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla, exploring how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s onwards, anti-imperialist terrorist cells operating in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Participants interviewed include Algerian nationalists Yacef Saadi, Zohra Drif, Djamila Bouhired and Abderrahmane Benhamida, Khmer Rouge members Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, once far-left activists Hans-Joachim Klein and Magdalena Kopp, terrorist Carlos the Jackal, lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, neo-Nazi Ahmed Huber, Palestinian politician Bassam Abu Sharif, Lebanese politician Karim Pakradouni, political cartoonist Siné, former spy Claude Moniquet, novelist and ghostwriter Lionel Duroy, and investigative journalist Oliver Schröm.

Directing:
  • Barbet Schroeder

Writing:
  • Barbet Schroeder

Stars:
Release Date: 2007-06-06
themoviedb icon 6.7/10
  • Country: FR
  • Language: English | Français | Deutsch
  • Runtime: 135

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Jacques Vergès
Jacques Vergè...
Self
Klaus Barbie
Klaus Barbie
Self (archive footage)
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
Ilich Ramírez...
Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Magdalena Kopp
Magdalena Kop...
Self
Guillaume Durand
Guillaume Dur...
Self (archive footage)
Abderrahmane Benhamida
Abderrahmane...
Self
Djamila Bouhared
Djamila Bouha...
Self
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
Isabelle Cout...
Self
Jean-Paul Dollé
Jean-Paul Dol...
Self
Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroe...
Narrator (voice)
Saadi Yacef
Saadi Yacef
Self
Pol Pot
Pol Pot
Self
Yacef Saâdi
Yacef Saâdi
Self
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