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Terror's Advocate (2007)

★ 6.5/10 135 min Documentary France French
Scenario Writer: Barbet Schroeder
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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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Jacques Vergès
Jacques Vergès Self
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Yacef Saâdi
Yacef Saâdi Self
Magdalena Kopp
Magdalena Kopp Self
Abderrahmane Benhamida
Abderrahmane Benhamida Self
Djamila Bouhared
Djamila Bouhared Self
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre Self
Jean-Paul Dollé
Jean-Paul Dollé Self

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