Terror's Advocate (2007)

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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 & Crew

Director
Barbet Schroeder
  • Profile picture of Jacques Vergès
    Self Jacques Vergès
  • Profile picture of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
    Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice) Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
  • Profile picture of Yacef Saâdi
    Self Yacef Saâdi
  • Profile picture of Magdalena Kopp
    Self Magdalena Kopp
  • Profile picture of Abderrahmane Benhamida
    Self Abderrahmane Benhamida
  • Profile picture of Djamila Bouhared
    Self Djamila Bouhared
  • Profile picture of Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
    Self Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
  • Profile picture of Jean-Paul Dollé
    Self Jean-Paul Dollé

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