Selling Hitler

Selling Hitler (1993)

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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.

Director: Alastair Reid

Casts

	Jonathan Pryce as Gerd Heidemann
	Alexei Sayle as Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
	Alan Bennett as Hugh Trevor-Roper
	Tom Baker as Manfred Fischer
	Alison Doody as Gina Heidemann
	Roger Lloyd Pack as David Irving
	Richard Wilson as Henri Nannen
	Peter Capaldi as Thomas Walde
	Julie T. Wallace as Edith Lieblang
	Barry Humphries as Rupert Murdoch
	John Shrapnel as Gerd Schulte-Hillen
	Alison Steadman as Edda Goering
	Frederick Jaeger as Fritz Stiefel
	Olivier Pierre as Peter Koch
	Thomas Wheatley as Jan Hensmann
	John Paul as Karl Wolff
	Philip Fox as Leo Pesch
	Philip Bowen as Wilfried Sorge
	Elaine Collins as Maria Modritsch
	Gregory de Polnay as Philip Knightley
	Tristram Jellinek as Magnus Linklater
	James Aubrey as Congo Randy
	Anthony Dawson as Marquis of Bath
	Michael Lees as Hans Bauer
	Ralph Michael as Wilhelm Mohnke
	Hugh Futcher as Sidney Mayer
	Jill Balcon as Lady Alexandra Dacre
	Hugh Simon as Peter Kuehsel
	Tony Sibbald as Maynard Parker
	Gabrielle Blunt as Gerda Christian
	Norman Chancer as Gerhard Weinberg
	Janet Crawford as Mrs Fritz Stiefel
	Devon Scott as Barbara Dickmann
	Michael Elwyn as Brian MacArthur
	Trevor Baxter as Frank Giles
	Edwin Craig as William Broyles
	Caroline Strong as Valkyrie
	Elizabeth Spender as Valkyrie
	John Quentin as Selling Hitler

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