“With a script by playwright David Hare based on Deborah E. Lipstadt’s nonfiction book about Holocaust deniers, Mick Jackson’s drama Denial promises fireworks from the get-go.
“Based on Lipstadt’s book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, a chronicle of the author’s legal battles in Britain after being sued for libel by Irving. In the film, Rachel Weisz plays Lipstadt, who, due to the intricacies of the British legal system, essentially must prove in court that the Holocaust — specifically, Auschwitz’s gas chambers — existed.” - Deadline