Terror's Advocate

June. 06,2007      
Rating:
7.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Jacques Vergès as  Self
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez as  Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Saadi Yacef as  Self
Magdalena Kopp as  Self
Djamila Bouhared as  Self
Jean-Paul Dollé as  Self
Barbet Schroeder as  Narrator (voice)
Guillaume Durand as  Self (archive footage)

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