Denial (2016 film)

Denial
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Directed by	Mick Jackson
Produced by	Gary Foster Russ Krasnoff
Screenplay by	David Hare
Based on	History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier by Deborah Lipstadt
Starring	Rachel Weisz Tom Wilkinson Timothy Spall Andrew Scott Jack Lowden Caren Pistorius Alex Jennings
Music by	Howard Shore
Cinematography	Haris Zambarloukos
Edited by	Justine Wright
Production company	Krasnoff/Foster Entertainment Shoebox Films Participant Media BBC Films
Distributed by	Bleecker Street Entertainment One
Release date	September 11, 2016 (2016-09-11) (TIFF) September 30, 2016 (2016-09-30) (United States) January 27, 2017 (2017-01-27) (United Kingdom)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United Kingdom United States
Language	English
Budget	$10 million
Box office	$5.3 million

Denial is a 2016 British-American historical drama film directed by Mick Jackson and written by David Hare, based on Deborah Lipstadt's book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier. It dramatises the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Lipstadt, a Holocaust scholar, was sued by Holocaust denier David Irving for libel. It stars Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott, Jack Lowden, Caren Pistorius and Alex Jennings.

Denial premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2016 and was released in the United States on September 30, 2016 by Bleecker Street. It was released in the United Kingdom on January 27 2017 by Entertainment One.

Deborah Lipstadt is an American professor of Holocaust studies whose speaking engagement is disrupted by David Irving, a Nazi Germany scholar. He files a libel lawsuit in the UK against her and her publisher for declaring him a Holocaust denier in her books. As in the United Kingdom the burden of proof in a libel case lies with the accused, Lipstadt and her legal team, led by solicitor Anthony Julius and barrister Richard Rampton, must prove that Irving lied about the Holocaust.