 Ronald
Harwood is currently
developing a script for Ridley
Scott about the 1992 trial of
David Irving, who was
convicted in a German court
for demeaning human
suffering.
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New York, March 23, 2003 [More
on that HBO-Schlock film on the 2000
Lipstadt Trial (with some minor
errors)] [extract only]  How
to dramatize the evils of the Holocaust
without diminishing them challenged
British playwright Ronald Harwood
("The Dresser") in adapting "The Pianist"
from the memoirs of Wladyslaw
Szpilman, a Polish-Jewish piano
virtuoso who escaped deportation to Nazi
labor camps.
 "I
take a huge breath," says Harwood, who is
currently developing a script for
Ridley Scott about the 1992 trial
of David Irving (right), who
was convicted in a German court for
demeaning human suffering in his writings
denying the Holocaust.
"I hold my breath and
[hope] I don't corrupt or distort.
Also, [director] Roman Polanski
and I didn't want to try and encompass the
whole Holocaust. You can't do that. By
concentrating on this one man, it
embraces
all the elements of terror that one can
imagine. Image:
Mr Irving researching at the UK
National Archives on his 65th birthday,
March 2003 Related
items on this website: 
Items on the
Ridley Scott film project
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