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
00:58:38 Syria, Lebanon.
01:03:01 He likes fine cuisine
01:05:40 they met during the Algerian war
01:08:50 I'd lost sight of Boudia:
01:11:44 I don't know how I got the idea, but I said to her:
01:14:26 The deal with Tshombé's family was
01:17:48 "You dumped yourwife and kids.
01:21:14 All the jailbreak plans
01:25:10 had several goals.
01:28:39 Later, Klein disappeared from sight for 20 years.
01:32:33 knocked down Magdalena Kopp as she crossed the Ohamps Elysées.
01:35:41 that jammed as he was about to fire at the policeman...
01:38:58 That's all.
01:43:48 from the Oarlos group
01:47:48 "Listen, you'll carry messages to the French government."
01:52:30 I said to my wife: "We'll have to take care of it."
01:55:46 It was exhilarating.
01:58:41 I was asked: "Would you defend Hitler?"
02:01:33 Bullet Train bomb!
02:04:13 knowing that Vergès was on his case.
02:07:06 He lost 27 kilos, he now weighs 48 kilos.
02:10:37 He's furious, doesn't understand Vergès' position.
03:00:04 singing the same song