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Terror's Advocate (2007)

Terror's Advocate (2007)

Documentary
Release Date: 2007, June 6
Directors: Barbet Schroeder
Countries: France
Production: Yalla Films, Wild Bunch
Cast: Jacques Vergès, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, Yacef Saâdi, Magdalena Kopp, Abderrahmane Benhamida, Djamila Bouhared, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, Jean-Paul Dollé, Guillaume Durand, Klaus Barbie, Zohra Drif-Bitat, Bassam Abu Sharif

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.