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