Terror's Advocate

06/06/2007

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2hrs 15min

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Documentary

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Jacques Vergès
  • Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
  • Yacef Saâdi
  • Magdalena Kopp
  • Abderrahmane Benhamida

    Director

  • Barbet Schroeder

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Magnolia Pictures

    Production Countries

  • France

LANGUAGES

  • Khmer
  • English
  • French
  • German

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