Barbet Schroeder
2007 - 135 min - 35 mm - Couleur - France
Communist, anticolonialist, or far right? What convictions guided Jacques Vergès?
Barbet Schroeder carries out an enquiry. At the start of the career of this enigmatic lawyer, the Algerian war and Djamilah Bouhired, who carries her people’s desire for liberation. He espouses the woman, and the anticolonialist cause. Then he disappears for eight years. On his return, he defends terrorists from all horizons and monsters of history such as Klaus Barbie.
At the limit between the political and the judicial, the film follows the meandering path of the "terror's advocate".
Author-Director : Barbet Schroeder
Photography : Caroline Champetier, Jean-Luc Perréard
Sound : Dominique Hennequin, Béatrice Wick, Yves Coméliau
Editing : Nelly Quettier
Original Music : Jorge Arriagada
Delegate Producer : Yalla Films
Distribution
Distributor : Wild Bunch Distribution
Not commercial Distribution : ADAV
DVD Editing : Wild Side Vidéo
VOD : Canalplay, Universciné
Circulation-Consultation : BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France). Département de l'Audiovisuel, Musée national de l'Histoire de l'immigration