Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
29/12/1999
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.
Movie Information
Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
as Self
Robert Jan van Pelt
as Self
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)
