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Watch Rachel Weisz defend his­to­ry in court­room dra­ma Denial

10 Nov 2016

Holo­caust denial is a mat­ter for the courts in this true-life legal drama.

Direc­tor Mick Jack­son promis­es a court­room dra­ma brim­ming with con­tro­ver­sy in the trail­er for his lat­est legal lam­bast, Denial, which cen­tres on the plight of Jew­ish-Amer­i­can his­to­ri­an Deb­o­rah E Lip­stadt to dis­cred­it David Irving’s opin­ion that the Auschwitz gas cham­bers were a fairy­tale”.

Based on the book His­to­ry on Tri­al: My Day in Court with a Holo­caust Denier’, the film stars Rachel Weisz as Lip­stadt, with Tim­o­thy Spall play­ing the vil­lain­ous Irv­ing and Tom Wilkin­son the voice of rea­son, Richard Ramp­ton. Today Holo­caust denial is a crim­i­nal offence through­out most of Europe, and it’s hard to believe that this cru­cial, cat­a­clysmic event in 20th cen­tu­ry his­to­ry was ever called into ques­tion, albeit in this case because of a con­tentious libel case.

As Andrew Scott, play­ing lawyer Antho­ny Julius, observes, Auschwitz is at the very cen­tre of Holo­caust belief, so it’s at the very cen­tre of Holo­caust denial.” With lines like this, we’re antic­i­pat­ing a smart, sus­pense­ful peri­od dra­ma. Check out the trail­er above and let us know your thoughts @LWLies

Denial is in cin­e­mas 27 Jan­u­ary, 2017.

Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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