Terror's Advocate
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.
Release Date: 2007-06-06
Documentary
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Casts
Jacques Vergès
as Self
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
as Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Yacef Saâdi
as Self
Magdalena Kopp
as Self
Abderrahmane Benhamida
as Self
Djamila Bouhared
as Self
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
as Self
Jean-Paul Dollé
as Self
Barbet Schroeder
as Narrator (voice)
Guillaume Durand
as Self (archive footage)
