Terror's Advocate (2007)
L'avocat de la terreur
135 min
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.
- Release date
- June 6, 2007
- Country of origin
- France
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Trailer
Cast
- Jacques Vergès as Self
- Ilich Ramirez Sanchez as Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
- Yacef Saadi as Self
- Djamila Bouhired as Self
- Barbet Schroeder as Récitant
- Guillaume Durand as Self (archive footage)
- Klaus Barbie as Self (archive footage)
- Zohra Drif-Bitat as Self
- Pol Pot as Self
- Barbet Schroeder as Narrator
- Bassam Abu Sharif as Self
- Abderrahmane Benhamida as Self
- Bachir Boumaza as Self
- Maître Brahimi as Self
- Louis Caprioli as Self
- Nuon Chea as Self
Crew
- Klaus Barbie · Archive footage
- Barbet Schroeder · Director
- Rita Dagher · Producer
- Jorge Arriagada · Composer
- Caroline Champetier · Cinematographer
- Jean-Luc Perréard · Cinematographer
- Nelly Quettier · Editor