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Terror's Advocate(2007)

06/06/2007 (US)Documentary2h 15m
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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.

Movie Cast

Jacques Vergès photo
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez photo

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)

Barbet Schroeder photo

Barbet Schroeder

Narrator (voice)

Guillaume Durand photo

Guillaume Durand

Self (archive footage)

Klaus Barbie photo

Klaus Barbie

Self (archive footage)

Movie Stats

StatusReleased

BudgetNot Given

RevenueNot Given

Production CompanyMagnolia Pictures

Original LanguageFrench

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