Rachel Weisz and Deborah Lipstadt hit red carpet for Denial premiere
Film unveiled at Toronto Film Festival retells Harvard professor’s courtroom battle with Holocaust denier David Irving
Francine Wolfisz is the Features Editor for Jewish News.
Rachel Weisz and historian Deborah Lipstadt were all smiles at the world premiere of her new film, Denial, the much-anticipated real-life drama retelling the Harvard professor’s courtroom battle with Holocaust denier David Irving.
The Jewish actress stars as Lipstadt, who was sued in 1996 for libel by the disgraced author, played by Timothy Spall.
Denial, which was unveiled at the Toronto International Film Festival at the weekend, shows Irving maintaining that no Jews has been killed in gas chambers at Auschwitz and that the claims of Holocaust survivors were untrue.
Convicted Holocaust denier Irving lost the high-profile case against publishing giant Penguin Books and was branded “an anti-semite and a racist” and “a right-wing pro-Nazi polemicist” by a High Court judge.
Lipstadt wrote a book about her experience, Denial: Holocaust History on Trial, which provides the basis for the film.
Both parents of Weisz, who is married to actor Daniel Craig, were forced to flee Nazi persecution during the Second World War.
“I felt it was a very important story for the fight for truth and the fact there’s a difference between fact and opinion,” she told Reuters.
Denial is released in UK cinemas in February.
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