8.0Selling Hitler · 1993
Selling Hitler (1993) is a Comedy / Drama / TV Movie film directed by Alastair Reid, starring Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Alan Bennett.
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8.0Overview
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.
Cast
Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Alan Bennett, Tom Baker, Alison Doody, Roger Lloyd Pack, Richard Wilson, Peter Capaldi
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What is "Selling Hitler" about?
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.
When was "Selling Hitler" released?
Selling Hitler was released in 1993.
Who stars in "Selling Hitler"?
The cast includes Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Alan Bennett, Tom Baker.
