Selling Hitler
First aired on Apr 20, 1993
Runtime: 256 mins
70%
Genres: Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
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.
Featured Cast: click image to view more
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
Featured Crew
Alastair Reid | Director
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