Terror's Advocate

Terror's Advocate (2007)

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.

star 6.7
  • Release Date: 2007-06-06
  • Runtime: 2h 15min
  • Director: Barbet Schroeder

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    • Trailer

    Cast

    • Jacques Vergès

      Self

    • Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

      Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)

    • Yacef Saâdi

      Self

    • Magdalena Kopp

      Self

    • Abderrahmane Benhamida

      Self

    • Djamila Bouhared

      Self

    • Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

      Self

    • Jean-Paul Dollé

      Self

    • Barbet Schroeder

      Narrator (voice)

    • Guillaume Durand

      Self (archive footage)

    • Klaus Barbie

      Self (archive footage)

    • Zohra Drif-Bitat

      Self

    • Bassam Abu Sharif

      Self

    • Pol Pot

      Self

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