documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defended unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.
Communist, anticolonialist, right-wing extremist? What convictions guide the moral mind of Jacques Vergès? Barbet Schroeder takes us down history's darkest paths in his attempt to illuminate the mystery behind this enigmatic figure.
A brilliant study in the link between moral corruption and narcissism.
ABOUT JACQUES VERGÈS
Jacques Vergès (born March 5, 1925 in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand) is a Reunionese lawyer and famous anti-colonialist communist figure.
Throughout his career as an attorney, Vergès has primarily taken political cases, and his clients have included both left and right-wing terrorists, war criminals and militants. In addition to Barbie and Garaudy, he has defended Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal; 1994), the Kelkal faction (1995), and President Slobodan Milošević (2002), although the last declined any legal advice from any party. When asked if he would have defended Hitler, Vergès once replied "I would even defend George Bush, if he would plead guilty."
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The key thing about Verges is that he was born in Thailand in 1924 or 1925 -- even here he apparently is slippery -- to a mother from Vietnam and a father from Reunion Island, the Indian Ocean island that is part of France. He thus came of age as multiracial in a colonial setting, which as one interviewee notes, means "to be against things," to be anti-establishment, anti-colonialist and anti-government. So even when this seemingly leftist lawyer defends Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, from his perspective he sees the trial as an opportunity to show that French collaborators were no different from evil Barbie.
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