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L'avocat de la terreur

Original title: L'avocat de la terreur

Year

2007

Rating

★ 6.6/10

Runtime

135 min

Genres

Documentary

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: Jacques Vergès, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, Saadi Yacef, Magdalena Kopp, Abderrahmane Benhamida, Djamila Bouhired, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, Jean-Paul Dollé