Terrors Advocate (2007)

Terrors Advocate 2007 An examination of the career of Jacques Verges, attorney for members of Algerias FLN, Palestines 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 Verges, friends, associates, and historians Connections with Nazis are explored, as well as Vergess marriage to Djamila Bouhared, his courtroom methods, his disappearance from 1970 to 1978, and the roots of his radicalism Throughout, Verges remains playful and charming, with a soupcon of arrogance The film suggests Vergess anti colonial nature is at his center