L'Avocat de la terreur

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".