Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

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.

"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.

"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.

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.

Barbet Schroeder mène l'enquête pour élucider le "mystère" Jacques Vergès. Au départ de la carrière de cet avocat énigmatique : la guerre d'Algérie, Djamilah Bouhired, la pasionaria qui porte la volonté de libération de son peuple. Le jeune homme de loi épouse la cause anticolonialiste, et la femme. Puis disparaît huit ans. A son retour, Vergès défend les terroristes de tous horizons (Magdalena Kopp, Anis Naccache, Carlos), des monstres historiques tels que Klaus Barbie. D'affaires sulfureuses en déflagrations terroristes, Barbet Schroeder suit les méandres empruntés par "l'avocat de la terreur", aux confins du politique, du judiciaire. Le cinéaste explore, questionne l’histoire du « terrorisme aveugle » et met à jour des connexions qui donnent le vertige...

Who are the men and women who bring bloody death to innocent civilians? Why do they do it? What are their methods? And how do they justify it?