Release Date
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Original Release
December 29, 1999
1h 31m
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)
⭐ 6.991 min
Overview
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.
Director
Errol Morris
Department: Directing
⭐Popularity: 1.1
Cast
Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
Self
⭐0.4
Robert Jan van Pelt
Self
⭐1.3
David Irving
Self
⭐1.2
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Caroline Leuchter
Self (voice)
⭐0.4
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James Roth
Self
⭐0.4
Shelly Shapiro
Self
⭐0.7
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Suzanne Tabasky
Self
⭐1.0
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Ernst Zündel
Self
⭐0.2
David Collins
Re-enactment cast
⭐0.1
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Daniel Polsby
Re-enactment cast
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Genres
Documentary
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