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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

7.0 91 mins Documentary   1999
Independent Film Channel   Fourth Floor Pictures   Scout Productions   Channel 4 Television  
Director(s): Errol Morris

Release Date: 29 Wed, Dec 1999

A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by holocaust revisionist historian Ernst Zundel to "prove" that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming Zundel's position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Most of the footage is of Leuchter, working in and around execution facilities or chipping away at the walls of Auschwitz, but Morris also interviews various historians, associates, and neighbors.

Casts of Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

David Irving

as Self

Caroline Leuchter

as Self (voice)

James Roth

as Self

Shelly Shapiro

as Self

Suzanne Tabasky

as Self

Ernst Zündel

as Self

David Collins

as Re-enactment cast

Daniel Polsby

as Re-enactment cast

Jeff Brown

as Re-enactment cast

Robert Duerr

as Re-enactment cast

Adolf Hitler

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Errol Morris

as Self - Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)

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