Terror's Advocate

Terror's Advocate

2007
2h 15m
6.5

6.5/10

37 votes • View on IMDb
Documentary
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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Language: FR

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Production Information

Production Companies
Yalla Films Wild Bunch
Production Countries
France
Spoken Languages
Khmer English French German

Quick Facts

Original Title L'avocat de la terreur
Release Date June 6, 2007
Status Released
Language FR
IMDb ID tt1032854
Website Visit Site

Cast

Jacques Vergès
Jacques Vergès

Self

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)

Yacef Saâdi
Yacef Saâdi

Self

Magdalena Kopp
Magdalena Kopp

Self

Abderrahmane Benhamida
Abderrahmane Benhamida

Self

Djamila Bouhared
Djamila Bouhared

Self

Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

Self

Jean-Paul Dollé
Jean-Paul Dollé

Self

Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder

Narrator (voice)

Guillaume Durand
Guillaume Durand

Self (archive footage)

Klaus Barbie
Klaus Barbie

Self (archive footage)

Zohra Drif-Bitat
Zohra Drif-Bitat

Self

Key Crew

Barbet Schroeder
Director
Rita Dagher
Producer