Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Acting
Spall's Irving is repulsively charismatic.
Writing
Refuses easy catharsis—deliberately unsatisfying.
Direction
Jackson lets silences scream.
Director
Mick Jackson
Rachel Weisz
Deborah Lipstadt
Tom Wilkinson
Richard Rampton
Timothy Spall
David Irving
Andrew Scott
Anthony Julius
Jack Lowden
James Libson
Caren Pistorius
Laura Tyler
Alex Jennings
Sir Charles Gray
Harriet Walter
Vera Reich
Mark Gatiss
Professor Robert Jan van der Pelt
John Sessions
Prof. Richard Evans
Nikki Amuka-Bird
Libby Holbrook
Pip Carter
Anthony Forbes-Watson
Jackie Clune
Heather Rogers
Will Attenborough
Thomas Skelton Robinson
Max Befort
Nik Wachsman
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