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A provocative, unsettling feature-length documentary film by Barbet Schroeder about Jacques Vergès, the highly controversial French lawyer, war veteran, revolutionary, agitator and intellectual popularly known as 'The Devil’s Advocate' and reviled as such by his critics for his persistent defence of those many perceive as the indefensible.

Any honest, balanced film about Vergès is bound to be as controversial and provocative as the man himself. This film, directed by Barbet Schroeder, no stranger to disturbing subject matter, will be impartial and straight forward, in the stark tradition of the director whose films like MORE, IDI AMIN DADA and BARFLY have taken audiences into dark places many of them would prefer to have avoided.