Terror's Advocate backdrop
Terror's Advocate poster
Trailer
Terror's Advocate
6.7
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2h 15m
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2007
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Released
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 poster
Jacques Vergès
Self
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez poster
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Yacef Saâdi poster
Yacef Saâdi
Self
Magdalena Kopp poster
Magdalena Kopp
Self
Abderrahmane Benhamida poster
Abderrahmane Benhamida
Self
Djamila Bouhared poster
Djamila Bouhared
Self
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre poster
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
Self
Jean-Paul Dollé poster
Jean-Paul Dollé
Self
Barbet Schroeder poster
Barbet Schroeder
Narrator (voice)
Guillaume Durand poster
Guillaume Durand
Self (archive footage)
Klaus Barbie poster
Klaus Barbie
Self (archive footage)
Zohra Drif-Bitat poster
Zohra Drif-Bitat
Self
Bassam Abu Sharif poster
Bassam Abu Sharif
Self
Pol Pot poster
Pol Pot
Self

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