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L'avocat de la terreur (2007)
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Release Date:
12 October 2007 (USA)
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Dictators. Terrorists. War Criminals. Meet the man who defended them all.
Plot:
A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy. full summary | add synopsis
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Nazi
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Anti Colonial
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Radicalism
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Khmer Rouge
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Historian
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Awards:
2 wins
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1 nomination
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NewsDesk:
(7 articles)
Assayas' 'Carlos the Jackal' ready for both the Silver & Small Screen
(From ioncinema. 21 July 2009)
Kunstler doc Finds Representation in Arthouse
(From ioncinema. 29 January 2009)
(From ioncinema. 21 July 2009)
Kunstler doc Finds Representation in Arthouse
(From ioncinema. 29 January 2009)
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An iconoclastic rebel
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Jacques Vergès | ... | Himself | |
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| Bassam Abu Sharif | ... | Himself | |
| Klaus Barbie | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Abderrahmane Benhamida | ... | Himself | |
| Djamila Bouhared | ... | Herself | |
| Bachir Boumaâza | ... | Himself | |
| Maître Brahimi | ... | Himself | |
| Louis Caprioli | ... | Himself | |
| Carlos | ... | Himself (voice) | |
| Nuon Chea | ... | Himself | |
| Isabelle Coutant-Peyre | ... | Herself | |
| Jean-Paul Dollé | ... | Himself | |
| Zohra Drif-Bitat | ... | Herself (as Zohra Drif) | |
| Guillaume Durand | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Lionel Duroy | ... | Himself | |
| Claude Faure | ... | Himself | |
| David Flinchheimer | ... | Himself | |
| Horst Franz | ... | Himself | |
| Rolande Giraud-Arnaud | ... | Herself | |
| Tep Khunal | ... | Himself | |
| Hans-Joachim Klein | ... | Himself | |
| Magdalena Kopp | ... | Herself | |
| Alain Marsaud | ... | Himself | |
| Gilles Menage | ... | Himself (as Gilles Ménage) | |
| Claude Moniquet | ... | Himself | |
| Colonel Raymond Muelle | ... | Himself | |
| Anis Naccache | ... | Himself | |
| Karim Pakradomi | ... | Himself | |
| Yacef Saadi | ... | Himself (as Yacef Saâdi) | |
| Barbet Schroeder | ... | Récitant / Narrator (voice) | |
| Oliver Schröm | ... | Himself | |
| Siné | ... | Himself | |
| Mahab Suleiman | ... | Himself | |
| Martine Tigrane | ... | Herself | |
| Patricia Tourancheau | ... | Herself | |
| Neda Vidakovic | ... | Herself | |
| Tobias Wunschik | ... | Himself | |
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Also Known As:
Terror's Advocate (USA) (new title)
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France:135 min
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Certification:
France:U |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) |
Canada:14A |
USA:Unrated |
Sweden:15 |
Brazil:12
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Jacques Vergès:
I was asked "Would you defend Hitler?" I said "I'd even defend Bush! But only if he agrees to plead guilty."
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Movie Connections:
Features La battaglia di Algeri (1966)
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This movie gives an astonishingly revealing picture of the outspoken French lawyer Jacques Vergès, who defended such controversial figures as the terrorist Carlos, the Nazi criminal Klaus Barbie or a member of the Algerian resistance against French rule, Djamila Bouhireb. Jacques Vergès even confirms that he would have defended Adolf Hitler IF he pleaded guilty (George Steiner did it in his formidable book 'In Bluebeard's Castle').
The movie reveals also the existence of a right-wing - religious financial network which provides judicial help for former fascists, like Nazi criminals. However, Barbet Schroeder could not uncover the exact nature of Jacques Vergès's pro-Palestinian actions or his support of the Red Khmer regime (on which he gives here, again controversially, a more or less positive comment) during the years of his life when he acted 'behind the scenes'.
This movie is a fascinating portrait of an iconoclastic rebel with a formidable intelligence and a profound analyzing capacity of the dark regions of man's nature and the amoral or immoral motives behind his behavior. By incorporating this behavior in a global context of 'a world at war, a resistance to a colonial rule or a defense of minorities', he could (can) denounce all the parties involved or attack frontally the existing global world order and its alleged morality. A must see.