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Title: Terror's Advocate (2007)
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| Jacques Vergès | ... | Himself | |
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Bassam Abu Sharif | ... | Himself |
| Klaus Barbie | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
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Abderrahmane Benhamida | ... | Himself |
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Djamila Bouhared | ... | Herself |
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Bachir Boumaza | ... | Himself |
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Maître Brahimi | ... | Himself |
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Louis Caprioli | ... | Himself |
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Carlos | ... | Himself (voice) |
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Nuon Chea | ... | Himself |
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Isabelle Coutant-Peyre | ... | Herself |
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Jean-Paul Dollé | ... | Himself |
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Zohra Drif-Bitat | ... | Herself (as Zohra Drif) |
| Guillaume Durand | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
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Lionel Duroy | ... | Himself |
An examination of the career of Jacques Vergès (1925- ), 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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the film begins with a credit, as stated in other reviews, that it represents the point of view of the director. the material is ambiguous but it seems to me pretty clear that Schroder respects Verges. I disagree strongly with the person who imagines it'd be more "interesting" to watch a doc about lawyers who represent people they despise and wonder what at all would be interesting about that. yes the film leaves some questions unanswered and in the interest of covering more ground on its subject does not get bogged down with some details about the role in history of some of the figures involved. this hardly means that the film was formless, incoherent, but as another reviewer mentioned the film requires the viewer to think, does not hand over conclusions wrapped up in a nice package with a bloody bow on top. It seems indisputable that Verges was a *collaborator* with those of his clients involved in "the struggle" against colonialism, whom he viewed as nothing more or less than soldiers, some honorable and some not so much. He took on the indefensible case of barbie to hold up a mirror to France's record in algeria. I don't really understand peoples' confusion about schroder's point of view of this complicated but far from unfathomable character. I appreciate that this film points the way to other viewing cf the battle of algiers.