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Title: Terror's Advocate (2007)
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| Jacques Vergès | ... | Self | |
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Bassam Abu Sharif | ... | Self |
| Klaus Barbie | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Abderrahmane Benhamida | ... | Self |
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Djamila Bouhared | ... | Self |
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Bachir Boumaza | ... | Self |
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Maître Brahimi | ... | Self |
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Louis Caprioli | ... | Self |
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Carlos | ... | Self (voice) |
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Nuon Chea | ... | Self |
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Isabelle Coutant-Peyre | ... | Self |
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Jean-Paul Dollé | ... | Self |
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Zohra Drif-Bitat | ... | Self (as Zohra Drif) |
| Guillaume Durand | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Lionel Duroy | ... | Self |
An examination of the career of Jacques Vergès, attorney for members of Algeria's FLN, Palestine's FPLP, the Khmer Rouge, Carlos and associates, Klaus Barbie, and other revolutionaries and outcasts. Archival footage, news articles, and photographs mix with contemporary interviews of Vergès, friends, associates, and historians. Connections with Nazis are explored, as well as Vergès's marriage to Djamila Bouhared, his courtroom methods, his disappearance from 1970 to 1978, and the roots of his radicalism. Throughout, Vergès remains playful and charming, with a soupçon of arrogance. The film suggests Vergès's anti-colonial nature is at his center. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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A reminder that those that start out with the best intentions can become just as demented as the forces they are battling against. If not much worse. I suspect the reason the director made a straight documentary instead of a biographic film is that fact no one would believe such a character could possibly exist in real life.
Jacques Verges is the link that connects the most heinous figures of the twentieth century, but if you were just to go by his account you might almost be convinced he was a swell guy. The mental gymnastics this man performs to avoid admitting a single regret in his life is breathtaking (killing civilians kind of a gray area with Verges).
I suppose if you can convince yourself becoming Pol Pot's counsel and trusted confidante is worth abandoning your family for seven years, you are capable of justifying literally anything.