Terror's Advocate

Terror's Advocate (2007)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2007-06-06
  • User Rating: 6.7/10 from 33 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 15min
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  • Production Company: Magnolia Pictures
  • Production Country: France
  • Director: Barbet Schroeder
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Summary

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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  • Jacques Vergès

    as Self
  • Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

    as Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
  • Yacef Saâdi

    as Self
  • Magdalena Kopp

    as Self
  • Abderrahmane Benhamida

    as Self
  • Djamila Bouhared

    as Self
  • Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

    as Self
  • Jean-Paul Dollé

    as Self
  • Barbet Schroeder

    as Narrator (voice)
  • Guillaume Durand

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Klaus Barbie

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Zohra Drif-Bitat

    as Self
  • Bassam Abu Sharif

    as Self
  • Pol Pot

    as Self
Directing Barbet Schroeder Director
Writing Barbet Schroeder Scenario Writer

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