L'avocat de la terreur (2007)

Terror's Advocate

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.

L'avocat de la terreur

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Jacques Vergès
Jacques Vergès
as Self
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
as Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Yacef Saâdi
Yacef Saâdi
as Self
Magdalena Kopp
Magdalena Kopp
as Self
Abderrahmane Benhamida
Abderrahmane Benhamida
as Self
Djamila Bouhared
Djamila Bouhared
as Self
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
as Self
Jean-Paul Dollé
Jean-Paul Dollé
as Self
Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder
as Narrator (voice)
Guillaume Durand
Guillaume Durand
as Self (archive footage)
Klaus Barbie
Klaus Barbie
as Self (archive footage)
Zohra Drif-Bitat
Zohra Drif-Bitat
as Self
Bassam Abu Sharif
Bassam Abu Sharif
as Self
Pol Pot
Pol Pot
as Self

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Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder
Director
Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder
Scenario Writer

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