Terror's Advocate
Movie
Geners : Documentary
Rate : imdb 6.7/10
Status : Released
Language : English Français Deutsch fr
Country : France
Release :2007-06-06
RunTime :135 mins
Story :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 VergèsSelf
Ilich Ramírez SánchezSelf / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Yacef SaâdiSelf
Magdalena KoppSelf
Abderrahmane BenhamidaSelf
Djamila BouharedSelf
Isabelle Coutant-PeyreSelf
Jean-Paul DolléSelf
Barbet SchroederNarrator (voice)
Guillaume DurandSelf (archive footage)
Klaus BarbieSelf (archive footage)
Zohra Drif-BitatSelf
Bassam Abu SharifSelf
Pol PotSelf