Terror's Advocate (12A)

Documentary account of the career of Jacques Vergès, the radical French lawyer whose career has spanned 50 years, and taken him from defending Algerian liberation fighters to Nazi war-criminals and African dictators – with a mysterious gap in the middle when he vanished for eight years, possibly spending some of that time with his good friend Pol Pot.,/p>

The phrase "moral ambiguity" could have been coined for him; and Schroeder gives all the complexities their due – indeed, more than their due, since this runs somewhat over two hours.