Magdalena Kopp

Documentary about the German Magdalena Kopp, wife and accomplice of political terrorist Carlos the Jackal. The film takes the audience on Magdalena Kopp’s and her daughter's journey beyond the shadows of his myth.

O advogado Jacques Vergès surgiu na mídia nos anos 60. Defendia argelinos que mataram, em atentados em Argel, dezenas de franceses. Vergès mostrava seu lado anticolonialista. Mas o que se seguiu, a partir de então, foi que ele passou a defender a causa dos terroristas de Munique, de Carlos, o Chacal, de Klaus Barbie, o nazista conhecido como o Açougueiro de Lyon, de ditadores africanos, de Pol Pot, do Irã de Khomeini. O documentário não pende para lado algum. Deixa que os fatos, que seus participantes e que Vergès falem por si.

On December 21, 1975, six terrorists from the Revolutionary Cells, led by Carlos 'The Jackal' forced their way into the conference room of the OPEC headquarters in Vienna and took seventy ministers hostage. A gun battle with the police ensued, and three people were killed. One terrorist was seriously wounded. The terrorists managed to escape to Algiers with a few hostages and the wounded man. There the hostages were released. The wounded terrorist was Hans-Joachim Klein. At the moment that Klein arrived in Algiers, he decided to quit terrorism.