Topic: Barbet Schroeder
Jurors at the Venice film festival on Wednesday had only three days left to make their pick for the coveted Golden Lion after many of the 21 movies in competition failed to live up to expectations. "There are too many films that ...
French lawyer Jacques Vergès has defended Nazi lieutenant Klaus Barbie, terrorist Carlos the Jackal, the Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy. Yes, he says with a smile in Barbet Schroeder's fascinating documentary about the man and his times ...
An elderly, vaguely familiar South-East Asian face fills the screen. " Jacques Verges has known me for 30 years," the man declares in heavily accented French, "and says he considers me polite, discreet - and always smiling. " Thus begins Barbet Schroeder's documentary about ...
