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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Cast
14 people
Jacques Vergès
Self
Also in
In the Darkroom
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Also in
The Jackal Speaks: Inside the Mind of a Mass Murderer
De terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein
Yacef Saâdi
Self
Known for
The Battle of Algiers
Magdalena Kopp
Self
Also in
De terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein
In the Darkroom
Abderrahmane Benhamida
Self
Djamila Bouhared
Self
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre
Self
Jean-Paul Dollé
Self
Barbet Schroeder
Narrator (voice)
Known for
The Darjeeling Limited
The Bakery Girl of Monceau
Guillaume Durand
Self (archive footage)
Known for
Special Correspondents
Klaus Barbie
Self (archive footage)
Zohra Drif-Bitat
Self
Barbet Schroeder Director · Jorge Arriagada Composer Caroline Champetier Cinematographer
First release June 6, 2007 · Produced in France · Languages English, French, German, Khmer
Production
Yalla Films
Production
Wild Bunch
Production
Magnolia Pictures
Production
France
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Languages
Original title
L'avocat de la terreur
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
English · French · German · Khmer
Release dates
Canada · June 6, 2007
Theatrical
France · June 6, 2007
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Italy
January 1, 2009 · Physical · DVD
Norway
December 7, 2007 · Theatrical
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