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Terror's Advocate

Original title: L'avocat de la terreur

★ 6.6 TMDB Rating · 41 votes

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.

Director
Barbet Schroeder
Release date
Jun 6, 2007
Original language
French
Origin
France

Cast of Terror's Advocate

  • Portrait of Jacques Vergès

    Jacques Vergès

    Self

  • Portrait of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

    Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

    Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)

  • Portrait of Yacef Saâdi

    Yacef Saâdi

    Self

  • Portrait of Magdalena Kopp

    Magdalena Kopp

    Self

  • Portrait of Abderrahmane Benhamida

    Abderrahmane Benhamida

    Self

  • Portrait of Djamila Bouhared

    Djamila Bouhared

    Self

  • Portrait of Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

    Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

    Self

  • Portrait of Jean-Paul Dollé

    Jean-Paul Dollé

    Self

  • Portrait of Barbet Schroeder

    Barbet Schroeder

    Narrator (voice)

  • Portrait of Guillaume Durand

    Guillaume Durand

    Self (archive footage)

  • Portrait of Klaus Barbie

    Klaus Barbie

    Self (archive footage)

  • Portrait of Zohra Drif-Bitat

    Zohra Drif-Bitat

    Self

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