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Selling Hitler (1993)

★ 8.0/10 256 min Comedy, Drama, TV Movie United Kingdom English
Director: Alastair Reid
Streaming: Not available

Description

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.

Top Cast

Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce Gerd Heidemann
Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett Hugh Trevor-Roper
Tom Baker
Tom Baker Manfred Fischer
Alison Doody
Alison Doody Gina Heidemann
Roger Lloyd Pack
Roger Lloyd Pack David Irving
Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson Henri Nannen
Peter Capaldi
Peter Capaldi Thomas Walde

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