Selling Hitler
1993, English. Directed by Alastair Reid.
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.
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- 4h 16m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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Cast & crew
- Alastair ReidDirector
- Jonathan PryceGerd Heidemann
- Alexei SayleKonrad 'Conny' Fischer
- Alan BennettHugh Trevor-Roper
- Tom BakerManfred Fischer
- Alison DoodyGina Heidemann
- Roger Lloyd PackDavid Irving
- Richard WilsonHenri Nannen
- Peter CapaldiThomas Walde
- Julie T. WallaceEdith Lieblang
- Barry HumphriesRupert Murdoch
- John ShrapnelGerd Schulte-Hillen
- Alison SteadmanEdda Goering
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- Released
- 20 April 1993
- Country
- United Kingdom
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Selling Hitler (1993) was directed by Alastair Reid and stars Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Alan Bennett.