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.
- Released
- 1993-04-20
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
- Runtime
- 256 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Alastair Reid
- TMDB rating
- 8.0/10 from 3 votes
Cast
- Jonathan Pryce as Gerd Heidemann
- Alexei Sayle as Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
- Alan Bennett as Hugh Trevor-Roper
- Tom Baker as Manfred Fischer
- Alison Doody as Gina Heidemann
- Roger Lloyd Pack as David Irving
- Richard Wilson as Henri Nannen
- Peter Capaldi as Thomas Walde
- Julie T. Wallace as Edith Lieblang
- Barry Humphries as Rupert Murdoch
- John Shrapnel as Gerd Schulte-Hillen
- Alison Steadman as Edda Goering