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Defending Terror; A revealing look at the enigmatic life of Jacques Verges.(Terror's Advocate)
Byline: Dana Thomas
On Sept. 30, 1956, a beautiful young Algerian revolutionary named Djamila Bouhired planted a bomb in an Algiers bar that killed 17 people. The bombing was the turning point in Algeria's fight for independence from France. Bouhired was arrested, tried in court, found guilty of terrorism and sentenced to death. Then a young French lawyer named Jacques Verges who supported Bouhired's anticolonial cause took on her case. Through a relentless press campaign in France and wily legal moves in Algeria, Verges managed to get Bouhired pardoned and released. She went on to become the emblem of Algeria's successful fight for independence--the French withdrew in 1962--as well as Verges's wife and the springboard for his career as the defender of terrorists and despots.
Director Barbet Schroeder explores the enigmatic Verges in "Terror's Advocate," a clear-eyed documentary that debuted to raves in Cannes last month and hits French movie theaters this week. Schroeder has a history of examining the ethos of "monsters," as he calls them: in 1974 he directed a riveting documentary on Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, and in 1990 he was nominated for the best director Oscar for "Reversal of Fortune," about the British socialite, Claus von Bulow, accused of murdering his wife, Sunny. But Verges intrigued Schroeder more than he could have imagined. "I couldn't wait to get to the editing room every morning," Schroeder told NEWSWEEK in Cannes. "It was like a page-turning spy novel spread over eight months."
At first, Schroeder says, Verges's motives for defending terrorists had merit: he truly believed in the anticolonial fight. Then one day in 1970, Verges ...
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