Terror's Advocate (2007)

Terror's Advocate (2007)

2007-06-06 France 135 Min. PG-13
6.7 33 votes

Overview

Synopsis by theflixtor - 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 is Self
Self
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez is Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Saadi Yacef is Self
Self
Magdalena Kopp is Self
Self
Abderrahmane Benhamida is Self
Self
Djamila Bouhared is Self
Self
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is Self
Self
Jean-Paul Dollé is Self
Self
Barbet Schroeder is Narrator (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Guillaume Durand is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Klaus Barbie is Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Zohra Drif-Bitat is Self
Self

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