Terror's Advocate (2007)

  • NR
  • 06/06/2007 (FR)
  • Documentary
  • 2h 15m

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.

Barbet Schroeder

Director

Cast

Jacques Vergès's headshot

Jacques Vergès

Self
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez's headshot

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Yacef Saâdi's headshot

Yacef Saâdi

Self
Magdalena Kopp's headshot

Magdalena Kopp

Self
Abderrahmane Benhamida's headshot

Abderrahmane Benhamida

Self
Djamila Bouhared's headshot

Djamila Bouhared

Self
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre's headshot

Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

Self
Jean-Paul Dollé's headshot

Jean-Paul Dollé

Self

Recommendations