Terror's Advocate 2007
L'avocat de la terreur
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
Crew
- Director
- Barbet Schroeder
- Producers
- Rita Dagher
- Cinematography
- Caroline Champetier, Jean-Luc Perreard
- Editing
- Nelly Quettier
- Composer
- Jorge Arriagada
Details
- Release date
- Jun 6, 2007
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Status
- Released
- Studios
- Yalla Films, Wild Bunch
- Country
- France
- Language
- Khmer, English, French, German
