Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

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.

"Operation OPEC - Terror Attack in Vienna" - On December 21, 1975, six terrorists including the Germans Gabriele Tiedemann and Hans-Joachim Klein, led by Venezuelan top terrorist Carlos, attack the participants of the OPEC conference in Vienna and take eleven oil ministers and dozens of employees hostage. The action kills three people. The lavishly researched film reveals the background of the spectacular attack and establishes connections. The investigators, former hostages and some of the terrorists involved are heard.

Коммунист, анти-колониалист, правый экстремист? Какие убеждения управляют моральными принципами Жака Верже? Знаменитый Барбет Шредер погружает нас в некоторые темные стороны жизни знаменитого «Адвоката террора», чтобы раскрыть для нас эту загадку. Во время войны в Алжире, молодой адвокат Верже поддерживает и защищает алжирскую террористку Джамилю Бухиред, обвиненную в подготовке серии взрывов в кафе. Верже добивается ее освобождения, женится на ней, и от этого брака рождается двое детей. Внезапно, на вершине свей карьеры, Верже на 8 лет исчезает без следа. И снова появляется, чтобы, шокируя общественность, раз за разом вставать на защиту всевозможных террористов, начиная с Магдалены Копп, Анис Нассаше, «Шакала» Карлоса, и заканчивая таким чудовищем, как нацист Клаус Барбье, по прозвищу «Лионский мясник».

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.

"Klein, a German Case" - The inside story on international terrorism related by an ex-terrorist Hans Joachim Klein. Through interviews, archive footage and reconstitution that clarify certain events, Klein reveals the workings of international terrorism : the underground networks, his participation in the OPEC bombing in Vienna, training camps, the manipulating role played by certain governments and the cynicism of those underground shadows that terrorized the world for 20 years.