Terror's Advocate

Terror's Advocate — Plot

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.

• Release date
• June 6, 2007
• Runtime
• 135 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Barbet Schroeder

Terror's Advocate — 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