Denial

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Denial is a legal drama directed by Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard). The film, which is based on the book “History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier” by Deborah E. Lipstadt, premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Starring in the film are Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, and Andrew Scott.

Denial recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s (Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. In the English legal system, in cases of libel, the burden of proof is on the defendant, therefore it was up to Lipstadt and her legal team led by Richard Rampton (Wilkinson), to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust occurred.

“We live in an age of unreason and lies, an age of violent outrages and all kinds of assaults on the truth,” says Jackson. “When I was a very young director at the BBC, I worked on a landmark series of documentaries called ‘The Ascent of Man.’ We shot an episode at Auschwitz. Just being there touched me in a profound way. When this script came my way, I thought, ‘I have to do that.’”

Denial is rated PG.