Denial

Directed by Mick Jackson

David Irving (Spall), once a well-regarded military historian, courted controversy when he began citing the pseudoscientific Leuchter report as proof that the Holocaust was a hoax. Deborah E. Lipstadt (Weisz) explicitly labelled him a denier in her 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, and he sued her for libel. But since the burden of proof in English libel law lies with the accused, it bizarrely fell to Lipstadt and her legal team to demonstrate that one of the defining events of the century did indeed transpire. A riveting drama penned by David Hare from Lipstadt’s book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, this is an absorbing account of a fight for truth.

 

Duration:
110 minutes

Languages:
English

Country of origin:
Great Britain and USA

Year of production:
2016