L'avocat de la terreur
Movie - 135mins
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:
Guillaume
Durand
Klaus
Barbie
Zohra
Drif-Bitat
Bassam
Abu
Pol
Pot
Jacques
Vergès
Ilich
Ramírez
Yacef
Saâdi
Magdalena
Kopp
Abderrahmane
Benhamida
Djamila
Bouhared
Isabelle
Coutant-Peyre
Jean-Paul
Dollé
Barbet
Schroeder
Guillaume
Durand
Klaus
Barbie
Zohra
Drif-Bitat
Bassam
Abu
Pol
Pot
Jacques
Vergès
Ilich
Ramírez
Yacef
Saâdi
Magdalena
Kopp
Abderrahmane
Benhamida