SATURDAY NIGHT FEATURE
Saturday January 28th
8:30 pm
Denial tells the true story of a legal battle that cut to the heart of the 20th century. Directed by Emmy winner Mick Jackson (Temple Grandin), and adapted by BAFTA and Berlin Golden Bear–winning screenwriter David Hare (The Reader) from Deborah E. Lipstadt’s book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, this film is an absorbing account of a woman’s fight for the truth.
David Irving (BAFTA Award winner Timothy Spall), once a well-regarded military historian, courted controversy when he began citing the pseudoscientific Leuchter report as proof that the Holocaust was a hoax. Lipstadt (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz) explicitly labelled him a denier in her 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, and he sued her for libel. But since the burden of proof in English libel law lies with the accused, it bizarrely fell to Lipstadt and her legal team to demonstrate that one of the defining events of the century did indeed transpire.
Special Guest Hana Lenhoff will be speaking and answering audience questions after the screening about her experiences as a Holocaust survivor.
