Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)

ALL 12/29/1999 (en) Documentary 91 Min
  • Release
    12/29/1999
  • Production
    Independent Film Channel, Fourth Floor Pictures, Scout Productions, Channel 4 Television
  • Rotten tomato
    70%
  • Original title
    Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 507,941.00
    -

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.

  1. Errol Morris

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Karen Schmeer

    Editor



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  1. Fred A. Leuchter Jr.

    Self

  2. Robert Jan van Pelt

    Self

  3. David Irving

    Self

  4. Caroline Leuchter

    Self (voice)

  5. James Roth

    Self

  6. Shelly Shapiro

    Self

  7. Suzanne Tabasky

    Self

  8. Ernst Zündel

    Self

  9. David Collins

    Re-enactment cast

  10. Daniel Polsby

    Re-enactment cast

  11. Jeff Brown

    Re-enactment cast

  12. Robert Duerr

    Re-enactment cast

  13. Adolf Hitler

    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  14. Errol Morris

    Self - Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 14 , Crews : 16

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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) 91 Min

ALL 12/29/1999 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 12/29/1999
  • Production
    Independent Film Channel, Fourth Floor Pictures, Scout Productions, Channel 4 Television
  • Original title Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
  • en
  • Revenue507,941.00

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.

  1. Errol Morris

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Karen Schmeer

    Editor

  4. Dorothy Aufiero, David Collins, Errol Morris, Kathy Trustman, Kathy Trustman

    Producer