Terror's Advocate (2007)

6.6 June 6, 2007 2h 15m Released
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.

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Cast

  • Jacques Vergès

    Jacques Vergès

    Self

  • Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

    Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

    Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)

  • Yacef Saâdi

    Yacef Saâdi

    Self

  • Magdalena Kopp

    Magdalena Kopp

    Self

  • Abderrahmane Benhamida

    Abderrahmane Benhamida

    Self

  • Djamila Bouhared

    Djamila Bouhared

    Self

  • Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

    Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

    Self

  • Jean-Paul Dollé

    Jean-Paul Dollé

    Self

  • Barbet Schroeder

    Barbet Schroeder

    Narrator (voice)

  • Guillaume Durand

    Guillaume Durand

    Self (archive footage)

  • Klaus Barbie

    Klaus Barbie

    Self (archive footage)

  • Zohra Drif-Bitat

    Zohra Drif-Bitat

    Self

  • Bassam Abu Sharif

    Bassam Abu Sharif

    Self

  • Pol Pot

    Pol Pot

    Self

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