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Terror's Advocate

Terror's Advocate

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📜 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.
🌏 Languages Available: Khmer , English , French , German
📆 Date Released: 2007-06-06
⌚ Running Time: 135 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 6.7

Beloved Cast

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

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