Selling Hitler (1991)
4h 16m
Running Time
June 11, 1991Release Date
Selling Hitler (1991)
4h 16m
Running Time
June 11, 1991Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Jonathan Pryce
Gerd Heidemann
Alexei Sayle
Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Alan Bennett
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Alison Doody
Gina Heidemann
Julie T. Wallace
Edith Lieblang
Richard Wilson
Henri Nannen
Roger Lloyd Pack
David Irving
Olivier Pierre
Peter Koch
Philip Fox
Leo Pesch
Peter Capaldi
Thomas Walde
Barry Humphries
Rupert Murdoch
Tom Baker
Manfred Fischer
John Shrapnel
Gerd Schulte-Hillen
Alison Steadman
Edda Goering
Frederick Jaeger
Fritz Stiefel
Thomas Wheatley
Jan Hensmann
John Paul
Karl Wolff
Philip Bowen
Wilfried Sorge
Elaine Collins
Maria Modritsch
Gregory de Polnay
Philip Knightley
Tristram Jellinek
Magnus Linklater
James Aubrey
Congo Randy
Anthony Dawson
Marquis of Bath
Michael Lees
Hans Bauer
Details.
Wiki.
Selling Hitler is a 1991 ITV television comedy-drama mini-series about the Hitler Diaries hoax and was based on Robert Harris's 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries.