Denial (2016)

Directed by

Mick Jackson

Genre

drama film, biographical film, historical film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 706 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Holocaust scholar is sued for libel by a Holocaust denier. She and her legal team must prove the truth of historical facts in a British courtroom.

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What happens

Denial is a 2016 biographical 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. It dramatises the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Lipstadt, a Holocaust scholar, was sued by David Irving, a Holocaust denier, for libel. It stars Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott, Jack Lowden, Caren Pistorius and Alex Jennings. Denial premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2016. It was theatrically released in the United States by Bleecker Street on 30 September 2016, and in the United Kingdom by Entertainment One on 27 January 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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