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Director: |
Errol Morris
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Starring: |
Caroline Leuchter, Robert Duerr, Jeff Brown, Daniel Polsby, David Collins, Ernst Zündel, Suzanne Tabasky, Shelly Shapiro, James Roth, Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan Van Pelt, David Irving
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Genres: |
Documentary, History, Crime, Biography, Indie-Arthouse Cinema
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Origin: |
United Kingdom
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Certificate: |
M
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Languages: |
English
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Aspect ratios: |
1.85 : 1
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Sound formats: |
Dolby Digital
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Running Time: |
91 min
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From Errol Morris, the award-winning director of The Thin Blue Line , comes the provocative true story of Fred A. Leuchter. Jr. The son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert, Leuchter was hired by prisons across the country to make capital punishment equipment more humane.
When Leuchter is called in as a high-profile expert in the sensationalistic Canadian trial of Ernst Zundel - the Neo Nazi who claimed the Holocaust was a hoax - his ego, bravado and absurd testimony reach national media prominence. Soon, a firestorm of controversy erupts. Ironically, what Leuchter thought was going to be an apex in his career ends up being his downfall. A psychological study of self-deception and the banality of evil, Mr. Death is a chilling account of the rise and fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
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