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Terror's Advocate

2007

135 minutes

Documentary

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.

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Top Cast

Jacques Vergès headshot

Jacques Vergès

Self

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez headshot

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)

Yacef Saâdi headshot

Yacef Saâdi

Self

Magdalena Kopp headshot

Magdalena Kopp

Self

Abderrahmane Benhamida headshot

Abderrahmane Benhamida

Self

Djamila Bouhared headshot

Djamila Bouhared

Self

Isabelle Coutant-Peyre headshot

Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

Self

Jean-Paul Dollé headshot

Jean-Paul Dollé

Self

Barbet Schroeder headshot

Barbet Schroeder

Narrator (voice)

Guillaume Durand headshot

Guillaume Durand

Self (archive footage)

Klaus Barbie headshot

Klaus Barbie

Self (archive footage)

Zohra Drif-Bitat headshot

Zohra Drif-Bitat

Self

Bassam Abu Sharif headshot

Bassam Abu Sharif

Self

Pol Pot headshot

Pol Pot

Self