Selling Hitler

4h 16m

Comedy Drama TV Movie

7

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

Konrad 'Conny' Fischer

Hugh Trevor-Roper

Manfred Fischer

Roger Lloyd Pack

Julie T. Wallace

Barry Humphries

Gerd Schulte-Hillen

Alison Steadman

Frederick Jaeger

Thomas Wheatley

Maria Modritsch

Gregory de Polnay

Philip Knightley

Tristram Jellinek

Magnus Linklater

Marquis of Bath

Lady Alexandra Dacre

Gabrielle Blunt

Gerda Christian

Gerhard Weinberg

Mrs Fritz Stiefel

Barbara Dickmann

Brian MacArthur

William Broyles

Caroline Strong

Elizabeth Spender

Crew