Terror's Advocate

Terror's Advocate by Barbet Schroeder

6.70

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.

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Cast

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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