Terror's Advocate
movie
Released June 06, 2007
Genres:
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.
Cast
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)
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Zohra Drif-Bitat
as
Self