Selling Hitler (1993)
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
- Date of release
- 1993-04-20
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 4h 16m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Alastair Reid
Casting
- Jonathan Pryce — Gerd Heidemann
- Alexei Sayle — Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
- Alan Bennett — Hugh Trevor-Roper
- Tom Baker — Manfred Fischer
- Alison Doody — Gina Heidemann
- Roger Lloyd Pack — David Irving
- Richard Wilson — Henri Nannen
- Peter Capaldi — Thomas Walde
- Julie T. Wallace — Edith Lieblang
- Barry Humphries — Rupert Murdoch
- John Shrapnel — Gerd Schulte-Hillen
- Alison Steadman — Edda Goering
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