Denial is a 2016 biographical drama film directed by Mick Jackson and written by David Hare, based on Deborah Lipstadt's 2005 book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier. The film stars Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott, Jack Lowden, Caren Pistorius and Alex Jennings. It initially premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2016.
Summary[]
In 1993 Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books published `Denying the Holocaust'. Two years later the English author David Irving sued her for libel on the grounds that her book had ruined his once well-regarded career as an historian by accusing him of deliberately distorting historical facts. The resulting court case puts the onus on her legal team to prove that the Holocaust did indeed take place. Based on a true story.
Cast[]
- Rachel Weisz as Deborah Lipstadt
- Tom Wilkinson as Richard Rampton
- Timothy Spall as David Irving
- Andrew Scott as Anthony Julius
- Jack Lowden as James Libson
- Caren Pistorius as Laura Tyler
- Alex Jennings as Sir Charles Gray
- Mark Gatiss as Robert Jan van Pelt
- Andrea Deck as Leonie
- Sally Messham as Meg
- Sean Power as Mitch
- John Sessions as Professor Richard Evans
- Nikki Amuka-Bird as Lilly Holbrook
- Harriet Walter as Vera Reich