18° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Americana (Bigger, Longer & Uncut) 2000
MR. DEATH: THE RISE AND FALL OF FRED A. LEUCHTER, JR.
Country: USA
Year: 1999
Duration: 87'
MR. DEATH: THE RISE AND FALL OF FRED A. LEUCHTER, JR.
Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. is a Massachusetts engineer who has dedicated his life to projecting ad repairing gas chambers, electric chairs, and systems for lethal injections. Although he is self-taught, he soon became a consultant for many American states that have the death penalty. In 1998 Ernst Zündel, a neo-Nazi, commissioned him to do research on the gas chambers in Auschwitz. Leuchter came to the conclusion that the "holocaust never existed." The controversy that his declarations stirred up ruined him.
Biography
film director
Errol Morris
Errol Morris was born in 1948 in Hewlett, Long Island. He studied at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Princeton and Berkeley. His movie career began in 1978 with the documentary Gates of Heaven, about two animal cemeteries. Ten years later, he made The Thin Blue Line, an investigation of a murder that let the police discover the true assassin and free an innocent person who was already on death row. In 1991 he made A Brief History of Time, a long interview with the scientist Stephen Hawking. In 1997 the Torino Film Festival showed his film Fast, Cheap & Out of Control.
FILMOGRAFIA
Gates of Haven (doc, 1978), Vernon, Florida (doc, 1981), The Thin Blue Line (La sottile linea blu, doc, 1988), A Brief History of Time (Dal big bang ai buchi neri, doc, 1991), The Dark Wind (La collina del demonio, 1991), Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (doc, 1997), Stairway to Heaven (cm, doc, 1998), Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (doc, 1999), First Person (serie TV, 2000), The 74th Annual Academy Awards (doc, TV, 2002), The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (doc, 2003).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Errol Morris.
Director of photography: Peter Donohue, Robert Richardson.
Art director: Ted Bafaloukos.
Editor: Karen Schmeer.
Sound: Coll Anderson.
Music: Caleb Sampson.
Intervistati: Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan Van Pelt, David Irving, James Roth, Shelly Shapiro, Suzanne Tabasky, Ernst Zündel.
Production company: Michael Williams, David Collins, Dorothy Aufiero per Scout Productions, USA, tel. +1-617-7827799, fax +1-617-7827722.
Foreign sales agent: Lions Gate Films International, 5750 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 501, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA, tel. +1-323-6927325, fax +1-323-6927325.
Italian distribution: Mikado, via Vittor Pisani 12, 20124 Milano, Italy, tel. +39-02-66711466, fax +39-02-66711488.
Director of photography: Peter Donohue, Robert Richardson.
Art director: Ted Bafaloukos.
Editor: Karen Schmeer.
Sound: Coll Anderson.
Music: Caleb Sampson.
Intervistati: Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan Van Pelt, David Irving, James Roth, Shelly Shapiro, Suzanne Tabasky, Ernst Zündel.
Production company: Michael Williams, David Collins, Dorothy Aufiero per Scout Productions, USA, tel. +1-617-7827799, fax +1-617-7827722.
Foreign sales agent: Lions Gate Films International, 5750 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 501, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA, tel. +1-323-6927325, fax +1-323-6927325.
Italian distribution: Mikado, via Vittor Pisani 12, 20124 Milano, Italy, tel. +39-02-66711466, fax +39-02-66711488.