Denial

2016. 110 m. Mick Jackson. Bleecker Street Films. USA/UK. Various. Rated PG-13.

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Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardner) and Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner) star in this riveting, true-life drama about the courtroom showdown between historian Deborah Lipstadt and notorious Holocaust denier David Irving. Directed by Mick Jackson (L.A. Story), and adapted for the screen from Lipstadt’s book, History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, by the award-winning screenwriter David Hare (The Hours), this powerful film chronicles Lipstadt’s fight for truth after being sued for libel by Irving, a military historian who cited the pseudoscientific Leuchter report as proof that the Holocaust was a hoax. Because the lawsuit was heard under British law, where there is no concept of “innocent until proven guilty,” the burden of proof fell to Lipstadt and her lawyer (Tom Wilkinson, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel).

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Deborah Lipstadt is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. One of the nation's foremost experts on Holocaust denial and modern anti-Semitism, Lipstadt's 2005 book, History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving, is the story of her libel trial in London against Irving, who sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier and right wing extremist based on her 1993 book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, the first full-length study of the history of those who attempt to deny the Holocaust. Lipstadt has served as an historical consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and her most recent book The Eichmann Trial, was published in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of this landmark case. Todd Gitlin, an American writer, sociologist, communications scholar, novelist and poet, is a Professor of Journalism and Sociology at Columbia University in New York City. He has written 16 books, including history from the last century The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage and contemporary Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street; sociology The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left; communications theory Media Unlimited; and three published novels including Sacrifice, which won the Harold Ribalow Award for fiction on Jewish themes. He is a columnist for Tablet and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, and many magazines.