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Terror's Advocate

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.

2007 |2h 15m |  Documentary

Videos

Cast

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Jacques Vergès

Self

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Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)

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Yacef Saâdi

Self

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Magdalena Kopp

Self

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Abderrahmane Benhamida

Self

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Djamila Bouhared

Self

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Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

Self

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Jean-Paul Dollé

Self

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Guillaume Durand

Self (archive footage)

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Klaus Barbie

Self (archive footage)

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Pol Pot

Self

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Status

Released

Language

Khmer, English, French, German

Budget

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