Terror's Advocate

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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  Barbet Schroeder

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