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Bleecker Street has given an awards season release to courtroom drama “Denial”.
Starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson, the film will open on September 30 in the US.
Based on Deborah E. Lipstadt’s book “History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier”, the film tells the story of Lipstadt’s (Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against Holocaust denier David Irving (Spall).
Mick Jackson directed the movie from a script by David Hare.
Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff of Krasnoff/Foster Entertainment will produce with Shoebox Films. Exec producers are Participant Media’s Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King, BBC Films’ Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer, Bleecker Street’s Andrew Karpen, and Shoebox Films’ Guy Heeley.
