Terror's Advocate
L'avocat de la terreur
Directing: Barbet Schroeder
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…
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Jacques Vergès
Self
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Saadi Yacef
Self
Magdalena Kopp
Self
Abderrahmane Benhamida
Self
Djamila Bouhired
Self
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
Self
Jean-Paul Dollé
Self
Barbet Schroeder
Narrator (voice)
Guillaume Durand
Self (archive footage)
Klaus Barbie
Self (archive footage)
Zohra Drif-Bitat
Self
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Bassam Abu Sharif
Self
Pol Pot
Self
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