Index to 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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