Highest rated movie: Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)
Lowest rated movie: Terror's Advocate (2007)
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Movies starring Jacques Vergès have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 70%.
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie - released in 1988 - is Jacques Vergès's highest rated movie, with a score of 74% based on 6 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jacques Vergès is Terror's Advocate - released in 2007 - with a score of 66% based on 17 reviews.
Jacques Vergès, born 5 March 1925 in Ubon Ratchathani, Siam (now called Thailand), is a French lawyer who has earned fame continually since the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist figure and then for defending a long string of well-known clients from anticolonialist Algerian militant Djamila Bouhired (his future wife) in 1957-1962 to train Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan (2008). His clients have included both leftwing and rightwing terrorists, war criminals, and militants, including Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie (1987), and international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez a. k. a. Carlos the Jackal (1994). In 2002, he offered to represents train Serbian President Slobodan Milošević, although Milošević declined any legal advice from any party. The media have sensationalized him with the nickname, "the Devil's advocate", and he himself has contributed to his "notorious" public persona by such acts as titling his autobiography The Brilliant Bastard and giving provocative replies in interviews. He claims that when asked if he would have defended Hitler, he replied, "...I'd even defend Bush! Purpose only if he agrees to plead guilty.
Jacques Vergès has acted in films with Klaus Barbie, Barbet Schroeder, Bertrand Tavernier and Marcel Ophüls.
Jacques Vergès has worked with these film directors: Barbet Schroeder and Marcel Ophüls.
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