Release Date

20 Apr, 1993

Runtime

04:16: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Selling Hitler

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Actors

Jonathan Pryce

Alexei Sayle

Alan Bennett

Tom Baker

Alison Doody

Roger Lloyd Pack

Richard Wilson

Peter Capaldi

Julie T. Wallace

Barry Humphries

John Shrapnel

Alison Steadman

Frederick Jaeger

Olivier Pierre

Thomas Wheatley

John Paul

Philip Fox

Philip Bowen

Elaine Collins

Gregory de Polnay

Tristram Jellinek

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