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German. Khmer. Terror's Advocate (French: L'Avocat de la terreur) is a 2007 French feature documentary film on controversial lawyer Jacques Vergès. Produced by Rita Dagher and directed by Barbet Schroeder, it explores how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s onwards, anti-imperialist terrorist cells operating in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East ...
What makes Terror’s Advocate so chilling is that its “star” — French lawyer Jacques Vergès — is a real-life attorney notorious for his infamous clients. Vergès came to prominence during the...
Acclaimed director Barbet Schroeder takes us down some of history's darkest paths in Terror's Advocate, a deeply probing history of the world terrorist movement as told through the story of this enigmatic lawyer, who has defended many of the most infamous figures of the latter 20th Century.
Terror’s Advocate (aka L’Avocat de la Terreur) is a 2007 French documentary film about the controversial French attorney Jacques Vergès. Synopsis: Communist, anti-colonialist, right-wing extremist? What convictions guide the moral mind of Jacques Vergès?
Sep 23, 2007 · “Communist, anti-colonialist, right-wing extremist? What convictions guide the moral mind of Jacques Vergès?” These two questions, posed by the official site and press notes for Barbet Schroder’s Terror’s Advocate, are pertinent but never addressed by the film.
Dec 27, 2018 · Movies. Terror’s Advocate. By Richard Brody. December 27, 2018. Photograph from Alamy. Barbet Schroeder directed this fascinating, appalling documentary portrait, from 2007, of the French...
Jun 6, 2007 · synopsis. The life of Jacques Vergès, the French lawyer famous for having defended terrorists such as Magdalena Kopp and Carlos, and true "monsters" of contemporary history such as Klaus Barbie and Pol Pot. Review: Ricardo and Painting.
