Terror's Advocate
2007-06-06 | 135 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Jacques VergèsSelf
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Ilich Ramírez SánchezSelf / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
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Yacef SaâdiSelf
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Magdalena KoppSelf
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Abderrahmane BenhamidaSelf
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Djamila BouharedSelf
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Isabelle Coutant-PeyreSelf
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Jean-Paul DolléSelf
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Barbet SchroederNarrator (voice)
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Guillaume DurandSelf (archive footage)
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Klaus BarbieSelf (archive footage)
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Pol PotSelf
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