Denial (2016)

	Also Known As: Verleugnung
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Mick Jackson
	Actors: Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson
	Country: GB, USA
	Genre: Drama, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 06.02.2017, Schauburg, OV sneak preview, English version with German subtitles
Synopsis: Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt (Weisz) must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving (Spall), a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Review: The story starts from a banality. One professor writes in a book (it is more often in published articles) that another professor is wrong. One special thing is that the topic is not on the importance of grammatical clause in anthopology or on existence of exoplanets. It is about holocaust, in which millions of people died and for which the Nuremberg trials collected many testimonies of victims and criminals. Both parties are actually minor figures but the trial brought these figures to play symbolic game in history of believes and free speech. Good that afterwards Lipstadt's career focused on this trial, on explanation of it and on struggling for free speech. As in any good thriller, the bad guy is played by an excellent actor, Timothy Spall. When he starts the whip up the crowd or to throw a slogan to her, it feels really like a disgusting beast full of disregard. Samewise the senior attorney Richard Rampton (Wilkinson) is excellent in his rethoric and in the subtil changes of emotions between in the court and outside. The role of Rachel Weisz is just the contact between these two main character.  For a trial movie, it appears quite suspenseful.
Rating: 6 /10