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Terror's Advocate
Documentary - 2007
Terror's Advocate
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7.1
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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
Cast:
,
Jacques Vergès
,
Klaus Barbie
,
Yacef Saâdi
,
Magdalena Kopp
,
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez
,
Abderrahmane Benhamida

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Details

Rated:
Unrated
Runtime:
135 min
Release date:
6 Jun 2007
Country:
FR
Languages:
Khmer, English, French, German
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins & 5 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
The movie functions crackingly well as a non-fiction international thriller.
– Geoff Pevere,
Toronto Star,
16 Nov 2007
fresh:
The lawyer's intense isolation, his solitary, perverse rage against the world, against France, against conventional opinion, is felt most deeply.
– Jason McBride,
Globe and Mail,
16 Nov 2007
fresh:
Schroeder's film, which combines interviews with many of the key figures in Verges' career with grainy historical footage, lets its subject speak for itself but leaves little doubt of where the filmmaker stands.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
9 Nov 2007
fresh:
For just a moment, ignore politics. Consider Jacques Verges simply as star. The radical French lawyer is an absolutely compelling figure onscreen: exotic, resolute, beguilingly smug.
– Mark Feeney,
Boston Globe,
9 Nov 2007
fresh:
Jacques Verges makes for compelling documentary film fodder: He is arrogant, cosmopolitan, politically unpredictable and enmeshed in the roots of modern international terrorism.
– Tamara Straus,
San Francisco Chronicle,
2 Nov 2007
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