Denial is based on a very real story that started in 1996 when the right-wing British author and historian David Irving (Timothy Spall) filed a libel suit against a Jewish-American history professor Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) and her British publisher Penguin Books for publishing a British edition of Lipstadt’s book ‘Denying the Holocaust’. In her book Lipstadt called Irving a Holocaust denier, falsifier, and bigot, and said that he manipulated and distorted real documents.
The movie is all about the Trial in the UK High Court where Lipstadt was forced to have to prove the very existence of the Holocaust itself.
Reviewed by queerguru aka Roger Walker-Dack for P.T.V.
Labels: 2016, Film Reviews
