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Terror's Advocate

Terror's Advocate

2007•2h 15m•6.5/10
Documentary

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6.5/10(37)

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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Yalla Films, Wild Bunch

Language

FR

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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

Self

Pol Pot

Pol Pot

Self

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