Release Date

06 Jun, 2007

Runtime

02:15: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

L'avocat de la terreur

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Actors

Jacques Vergès

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

Saadi Yacef

Magdalena Kopp

Abderrahmane Benhamida

Djamila Bouhired

Isabelle Coutant-Peyre

Jean-Paul Dollé

Barbet Schroeder

Guillaume Durand

Klaus Barbie

Zohra Drif-Bitat

Bassam Abu Sharif

Pol Pot

Crew

Barbet Schroeder

Barbet Schroeder

Rita Dagher

Brahim Chioua

Vincent Maraval

Eugénie Grandval

Christina Crassaris

Yves Coméliau

Béatrice Wick

Dominique Hennequin

Caroline Champetier

Jean-Luc Perreard

Jorge Arriagada

Nelly Quettier