Terror's Advocate
Documentary
Release Date
June 6, 2007
Duration
135 min
Status
Released
Language
fr
Overview
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.
Casts
Self
Jacques Vergès
Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
Self
Saadi Yacef
Self
Magdalena Kopp
Self
Abderrahmane Benhamida
Self
Djamila Bouhared
Self
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
Self
Jean-Paul Dollé
Narrator (voice)
Barbet Schroeder
Self (archive footage)
Guillaume Durand
Self (archive footage)
Klaus Barbie
Self
Zohra Drif-Bitat
Self
Bassam Abu Sharif
Self
Pol Pot
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