Selling Hitler

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.

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Comedy,

Drama,

TV Movie

Duration:

256 minutes

Year:

1993

Director:

Alastair Reid

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Company:

Thames Television,

Warner Sisters Productions,

ITV,

Euston Films

Cast:

Gerd Heidemann

Konrad 'Conny' Fischer

Hugh Trevor-Roper

Manfred Fischer

Gina Heidemann

Crew:

Director