The 1985 Trial of Ernst Zundel: In Memory of Doug Christie & His Fight for Free Speech [Documentary]

Doug Christie was a veritable star in various Canadian court venues – the likes of which the Lobby that plagues us all with all their lies piled up on lies and yet more lies had never yet encountered.

Doug Christie was young, brilliant, fearless, smashingly handsome, determined, exceedingly quick on his feet – conventional descriptions will not do him justice. He was in a league by himself. His adversaries – in the courts, and in the streets? You be the judge.

Somebody called Doug Christie “Ernst Zundel’s Battling Barrister” – the moniker fit, and it stuck. Seven times he took the Zündel Case alone to the Supreme Court of Canada – I have been told, more often than any other Canadian lawyer with any other case before him or since. He was a class act, both feared and admired by many.

This film portrays Doug Christie, both in life and in death. You will also meet beautiful Keltie, law researcher and comrade extraordinaire, Doug’s partner of 32 years and mother of his children. You will meet a much younger Ernst Zündel, the tireless street action populist – by now a world-wide icon of the Movement, prevented from joining his wife. You will get a glimpse of three or four dozen of Zündel supporters, simple folks like you and I. You will also meet a howling, shrieking mob of Zündel detractors whose behavior speaks for themselves. In this Shakespearean play, there is your corrupt judge. Your hateful prosecutor who does a hatchet job. And, finally, some glimpses of the moral essence of what really powers today’s premier Thought Criminal – contrary to what you may read in the paper.