History’s pages are not only written on battlefields. Courtrooms can also become the stage for decisive clashes, such as the one in the 1980s between historian Deborah Lipstadt and David Irving, whose Holocaust denial theories were gaining some alarming traction at the time.
Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall, two of the most talented English actors, portray these opposing figures, along with Tom Wilkinson, who plays the role of the former’s lawyer.
The heroine touches us with her fierce determination to extinguish her opponent’s deadly ideas, aware that this trial could turn into a nightmare legal precedent.
And her adversary unsettles us with his disarming geniality, which conceals his obnoxious opinions.
A varied story and a great showcase of acting talent.
