Terror's Advocate

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

  Self
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  Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

  Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
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  Yacef Saâdi

  Self
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  Magdalena Kopp

  Self
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  Abderrahmane Benhamida

  Self
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  Djamila Bouhared

  Self
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  Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

  Self
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  Jean-Paul Dollé

  Self
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  Barbet Schroeder

  Narrator (voice)
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  Guillaume Durand

  Self (archive footage)