| Films on the Lipstadt Trial
Alphabetical site index (text)
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Indexto the Ridley Scott film on the Lipstadt trial
- First mention of a film to be written by Ronald Harwood and directed by Ridley Scott, about David Irving and Deborah Lipstadt and the famous Holocaust denial trial
- Deutsche Welle (German propaganda radio): screenplay writer, Ronald Harwood working on a film of the trial of David Irving [sic]
- Dallas Morning News: A new crop of Holocaust films dares to suggest the humanness of evil
- More on that HBO-Schlock film on the 2000 Lipstadt Trial (complete with some minor errors which may well give the Law Courts even more joy)
- Sir Anthony Hopkins is asked to play David Irving in movie
- Interview with Ronald Harwood, the Jewish screenwriter of the film “The Pianist” directed by Roman Polanski, Cannes, Saturday May 25th 2002: “… My last play in London was about Gustav Mahler, the composer. I just do like writing about real people. Not living people … though I’m doing one at the moment about … I’m reconstructing a trial that happened in London two years ago. A man called David Irving, a historian, was accused in a book of being a Holocaust denier, you know, he said the Holocaust never happened … it’s a quite common … and he sued the woman who said it, an American academic, Professor [Lipschlatz] she’s called. And there was a huge libel trial, it lasted something like forty days. And Ridley Scott and HBO have come to me and asked me if I’d reconstruct it, which is a hell of a job, because there’s not much material for me to write … it’s a question of editing, in a way. So again, I’m on a real thing again. I don’t mind, I like it. ”
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