Movie Description
Selling Hitler
(1991)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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Alastair Reid
- Cast : Jonathan Pryce,Alexei Sayle,Alan Bennett,Tom Baker,Alison Doody,Roger Lloyd Pack,Richard Wilson,Peter Capaldi,Julie T. Wallace,Barry Humphries,John Shrapnel,Alison Steadman,Frederick Jaeger,Olivier Pierre,Thomas Wheatley,John Paul,Philip Fox,Philip Bowen,Elaine Collins,Gregory de Polnay,Tristram Jellinek,James Aubrey,Anthony Dawson,Michael Lees,Ralph Michael,Hugh Futcher,Jill Balcon,Hugh Simon,Tony Sibbald,Gabrielle Blunt,Norman Chancer,Janet Crawford,Devon Scott,Michael Elwyn,Trevor Baxter,Edwin Craig,Caroline Strong,Elizabeth Spender,John Quentin
Cast
Gerd Heidemann
Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Manfred Fischer
Gina Heidemann
David Irving
Henri Nannen
Thomas Walde
Edith Lieblang
Rupert Murdoch
Gerd Schulte-Hillen
Edda Goering
Fritz Stiefel
Peter Koch
Jan Hensmann
Karl Wolff
Leo Pesch
Wilfried Sorge
Maria Modritsch
Philip Knightley
Magnus Linklater
Congo Randy
Marquis of Bath
Hans Bauer
Wilhelm Mohnke
Sidney Mayer
Lady Alexandra Dacre
Peter Kuehsel
Maynard Parker
Gerda Christian
Gerhard Weinberg
Mrs Fritz Stiefel
Barbara Dickmann
Brian MacArthur
Frank Giles
William Broyles
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Facts
Original TitleSelling Hitler
Status Released
Release Information
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1991-06-11
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 04h 16m
Production CompaniesThames Television,Warner Sisters Productions,ITV,Euston Films
Genres
- Comedy
- Drama