Terror's Advocate (2007)
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.
Director: Barbet Schroeder
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Jacques Vergès as Self |
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Ilich Ramírez Sánchez as Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice) |
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Yacef Saâdi as Self |
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Magdalena Kopp as Self |
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Abderrahmane Benhamida as Self |
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Djamila Bouhared as Self |
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Isabelle Coutant-Peyre as Self |
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Jean-Paul Dollé as Self |
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Barbet Schroeder as Narrator (voice) |
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Guillaume Durand as Self (archive footage) |
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Klaus Barbie as Self (archive footage) |
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Zohra Drif-Bitat as Self |
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Bassam Abu Sharif as Self |
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Pol Pot as Self |
| Directing | Barbet Schroeder | Director |
| Writing | Barbet Schroeder | Scenario Writer |
| Production | Rita Dagher | Producer |
| Production | Brahim Chioua | Co-Producer |
| Production | Vincent Maraval | Co-Producer |
| Directing | Eugénie Grandval | Assistant Director |
| Production | Christina Crassaris | Post Production Coordinator |
| Sound | Yves Coméliau | Sound |
| Sound | Béatrice Wick | Sound |
| Sound | Dominique Hennequin | Sound |
| Camera | Caroline Champetier | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Jean-Luc Perreard | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Jorge Arriagada | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Nelly Quettier | Editor |
| Production | Sylvie Balland | Production Manager |
