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Selling Hitler (1993)

Selling Hitler (1993)

Drama Comedy TV Movie
Release Date: 1993, April 20
Directors: Alastair Reid
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Thames Television, Thames Television, Warner Sisters Productions, Warner Sisters Productions, ITV, ITV, Euston Films, Euston Films
Cast: Roger Lloyd Pack, Jonathan Pryce, John Shrapnel, Barry Humphries, Peter Capaldi, Julie T. Wallace, Norman Chancer, Edwin Craig, Alison Doody, Alexei Sayle, Frederick Jaeger, Anthony Dawson

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.