Terror's Advocate
2007 • Documentary
Barbet Schroeder
Director
Status
Released
Release date
June 6, 2007
Duration
135 Min
Language
fr
Popularity
1.1975
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Overview
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.
Cast
Jacques Vergès
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
Saadi Yacef
Magdalena Kopp
Abderrahmane Benhamida
Djamila Bouhared
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
Jean-Paul Dollé
Barbet Schroeder
Guillaume Durand
Klaus Barbie
Pol Pot
