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Terror's Advocate (2007)

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.
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Barbet Schroeder profile
Barbet Schroeder

Director

Cast

Jacques Vergès profile
Jacques Vergès

Self

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez profile
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)

Yacef Saâdi profile
Yacef Saâdi

Self

Magdalena Kopp profile
Magdalena Kopp

Self

Abderrahmane Benhamida profile
Abderrahmane Benhamida

Self

Djamila Bouhared profile
Djamila Bouhared

Self

Isabelle Coutant-Peyre profile
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

Self

Jean-Paul Dollé profile
Jean-Paul Dollé

Self

Barbet Schroeder profile
Barbet Schroeder

Narrator (voice)

Guillaume Durand profile
Guillaume Durand

Self (archive footage)

Klaus Barbie profile
Klaus Barbie

Self (archive footage)

Zohra Drif-Bitat profile
Zohra Drif-Bitat

Self

Jacques Vergès profile
Jacques Vergès

Self

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez profile
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)

Yacef Saâdi profile
Yacef Saâdi

Self

Magdalena Kopp profile
Magdalena Kopp

Self

Abderrahmane Benhamida profile
Abderrahmane Benhamida

Self

Djamila Bouhared profile
Djamila Bouhared

Self

Isabelle Coutant-Peyre profile
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

Self

Jean-Paul Dollé profile
Jean-Paul Dollé

Self

Barbet Schroeder profile
Barbet Schroeder

Narrator (voice)

Guillaume Durand profile
Guillaume Durand

Self (archive footage)

Klaus Barbie profile
Klaus Barbie

Self (archive footage)

Zohra Drif-Bitat profile
Zohra Drif-Bitat

Self

Extra

Release Date

June 6, 2007

Original Language

Khmer, English, French, German

Budget

$0.00

Production Company

Magnolia Pictures logo

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