Terror's Advocate
Terror's Advocate

Terror's Advocate

June 06, 2007 | 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.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Naomi Scott

Jacques Vergès

Naomi Scott

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

Naomi Scott

Saadi Yacef

Naomi Scott

Magdalena Kopp

Naomi Scott

Abderrahmane Benhamida

Naomi Scott

Djamila Bouhared

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