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Terror's Advocate

(2007)

Documentary

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2hrs 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.

Score

65

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Jacques Vergès as Self

Jacques Vergès

** Self

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez as Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

** Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)

Yacef Saâdi as Self

Yacef Saâdi

** Self

Magdalena Kopp as Self

Magdalena Kopp

** Self

Abderrahmane Benhamida as Self

Abderrahmane Benhamida

** Self

Djamila Bouhared as Self

Djamila Bouhared

** Self

Isabelle Coutant-Peyre as Self

Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

** Self

Jean-Paul Dollé as Self

Jean-Paul Dollé

** Self

Barbet Schroeder as Narrator (voice)

Barbet Schroeder

** Narrator (voice)

Guillaume Durand as Self (archive footage)

Guillaume Durand

** Self (archive footage)

Klaus Barbie as Self (archive footage)

Klaus Barbie

** Self (archive footage)

Zohra Drif-Bitat as Self

Zohra Drif-Bitat

** Self

Bassam Abu Sharif as Self

Bassam Abu Sharif

** Self

Pol Pot as Self

Pol Pot

** Self

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