Selling Hitler

Overview

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.

Directed by Alastair Reid

Top cast

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

Richard Wilson

Henri Nannen

Peter Capaldi

Thomas Walde

Julie T. Wallace

Edith Lieblang

Barry Humphries

Rupert Murdoch

John Shrapnel

Gerd Schulte-Hillen

Alison Steadman

Edda Goering

Frederick Jaeger

Fritz Stiefel

Olivier Pierre

Peter Koch

Thomas Wheatley

Jan Hensmann

John Paul

Karl Wolff

Philip Fox

Leo Pesch

P

Philip Bowen

Wilfried Sorge

E

Elaine Collins

Maria Modritsch

G

Gregory de Polnay

Philip Knightley

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