A portrait of the life of the infamous American execution device designer. 

A portrait of the life of the infamous American execution device designer.

Mr. Death: the Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr is the latest feature documentary from Errol Morris whose previous films include The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time and Fast Cheap and Out of Control. Mr Death is Leuchter Jr, who prided himself on his engineering skills in being able to design and make more efficient methods of execution for various prisons in the United States. Because of this expertise he was commissioned by Canadian neo-Nazi Ernst Zundel to go to Auschwitz to get evidence that there were in fact no gas chambers there. Morris doesn`t set out to prove that Leuchter was anything other than a very ordinary man with a degree of hubris about the one area in life that gave him any sort of recognition who was naive more than anything else......