Film·2007·14A·2h 15m

Terror's Advocate

Documentary

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.

Directed by Barbet Schroeder

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12 credited

Jacques Vergès
Jacques VergèsSelf
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
Ilich Ramírez SánchezSelf / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Yacef Saâdi
Yacef SaâdiSelf
Magdalena Kopp
Magdalena KoppSelf
Abderrahmane Benhamida
Abderrahmane BenhamidaSelf
Djamila Bouhared
Djamila BouharedSelf
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
Isabelle Coutant-PeyreSelf
Jean-Paul Dollé
Jean-Paul DolléSelf
Barbet Schroeder
Barbet SchroederNarrator (voice)
Guillaume Durand
Guillaume DurandSelf (archive footage)
Klaus Barbie
Klaus BarbieSelf (archive footage)
Zohra Drif-Bitat
Zohra Drif-BitatSelf

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