Terror's Advocate
2007 · 135 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 1,740 VOTES · DIR. Barbet Schroeder
Overview
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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00:55:18 He did something that interested him
00:58:36 Iraq
01:02:55 who sleeps in cellars and eats tinned food.
01:05:26 we agreed on certain things...
01:08:31 killed by the Israeli secret service in Paris
01:11:30 who stares at me.
01:14:05 I soon knew, after my little inquiry
01:17:24 I invited him for the weekend:
01:20:44 So I was with him day and night
01:24:28 But the operation got fouled up from the start.
01:28:04 and the Police Ohief, I knew everyone...
01:31:20 before going to sleep?
01:34:49 Once it was public, Deferre's position
01:38:03 Proud, smiling scornfully, they ridicule the trial.
01:42:16 and they developed
01:46:11 They've even been published since.
01:51:03 in that hotel by the German border. He did.
01:54:06 He's an old friend. That's all.
01:57:22 He said: "Yes, but...", then explained at length
02:00:35 Iran is at warwith Iraq, that is backed by France
02:03:02 Without waming me, he was moved from the Fleury prison
02:05:47 He wrote me asking me to go see him.
02:09:14 We know Oarlos and Vergès knew each otherwell
02:12:17 Of course.