L'avocat de la terreur
2007 [FRENCH]
Action / Biography / Documentary / History
87%
TOMATOMETER
· 46 reviews
67%
AUDIENCE
· 1K ratings
7.1/10
1.8K
Plot summary
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
Top cast
Jacques Vergès as Self
Yacef Saadi as Self
Barbet Schroeder as Récitant / Narrator
Guillaume Durand as Self
Tech specs
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB 1.19 GB
1280*686
French 2.0
Unrated
Comments 2
A wonderful documentary about this so cultured, secret lawyer. Whether one liked or hated the man, one has to acknowledge that he was brilliant.
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¡Great movie!