Terror's Advocate (2007)
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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Cast
- Jacques Vergès — Self
- Ilich Ramírez Sánchez — Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
- Yacef Saâdi — Self
- Magdalena Kopp — Self
- Abderrahmane Benhamida — Self
- Djamila Bouhared — Self
- Isabelle Coutant-Peyre — Self
- Jean-Paul Dollé — Self
- Barbet Schroeder — Narrator (voice)
- Guillaume Durand — Self (archive footage)
- Klaus Barbie — Self (archive footage)
- Zohra Drif-Bitat — Self
Where to watch Terror's Advocate
Philo, Dox Amazon Channel, Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel, Warriors and Gangsters Amazon Channel, Kanopy, Hoopla, Tubi TV
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