Fedor Sendak
27jan: terror's advocate (2007)
Next Tuesday at CAVIA we will be presenting this wonderfully controversial documentary over the French Lawyer Jacques Vergès....
TUESDAY JANUARY 27th @ CAVIA
TERROR\'S ADVOCATE (2007)
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
135 minutes
In French with English subtitles
This film by Barbet Schroeder (Single White Female, Maitresse, Barfly) is a documentary portrait of French attorney Jacques Vergès, a man who has certainly caused a load of scandals. Vergès was a former French Forces guerrilla who ended up being a lawyer defending the Algerian cause....but that is just the beginning of the story.
The title TERROR\'S ADVOCATE derives from the case that made Vergès famous at the beginning of his career: he was asked to defend a group of \"terrorists\", responsible for a series of killings in Algeria. Of course, these men and women didnt call themselves terrorists but freedom fighters, and protested that what they did was the right thing to do. Vergès shared their ideals, managed to get them all out of jail and even married one of them.
Verges\' style and tactics were established early on; viewed by his own government as a mercenary, traitor, and provocateur, he specialized in what he called the \"rupture defense,\" in which he and his associates essentially refused to participate in the court proceedings. His clientele since then has included some of the most notorious scoundrels in 20th Century history, among them Nazi war criminal Klaus \"Butcher of Lyon\" Barbie, the leftist revolutionary known as \"Carlos the Jackal,\" Serbian dictator Slobodan Milošević, and an array of Palestinian hijackers, freedom fighters, Islamic terrorists, African dictators, and so on.
This is a riveting portrait of a brilliantly complicated man who isnt afraid to fight for his unorthodox point of view...a fast moving, compelling film. And once again this is an important film which hasnt been screened much outside of its native France.
Ciné INTERZONE Film Club
Filmhuis Cavia- Van Hallstraat 52-B
Time: 20:30
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