Selling Hitler (1991)

ALL 06/11/1991 (en) Comedy, Drama 256 Min
  • Release
    06/11/1991
  • Production
    Thames Television, Warner Sisters Productions, ITV, Euston Films
  • Rotten tomato
    70%
  • Original title
    Selling Hitler
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Alastair Reid

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Casts

  1. Jonathan Pryce

    Gerd Heidemann

  2. Alexei Sayle

    Konrad 'Conny' Fischer

  3. Alan Bennett

    Hugh Trevor-Roper

  4. Tom Baker

    Manfred Fischer

  5. Alison Doody

    Gina Heidemann

  6. Roger Lloyd Pack

    David Irving

  7. Richard Wilson

    Henri Nannen

  8. Peter Capaldi

    Thomas Walde

  9. Julie T. Wallace

    Edith Lieblang

  10. Barry Humphries

    Rupert Murdoch

  11. John Shrapnel

    Gerd Schulte-Hillen

  12. Alison Steadman

    Edda Goering

  13. Frederick Jaeger

    Fritz Stiefel

  14. Olivier Pierre

    Peter Koch

  15. Thomas Wheatley

    Jan Hensmann

  16. John Paul

    Karl Wolff

  17. Philip Fox

    Leo Pesch

  18. Philip Bowen

    Wilfried Sorge

  19. Elaine Collins

    Maria Modritsch

  20. Gregory de Polnay

    Philip Knightley

  21. Tristram Jellinek

    Magnus Linklater

  22. James Aubrey

    Congo Randy

  23. Anthony Dawson

    Marquis of Bath

  24. Michael Lees

    Hans Bauer

  25. Ralph Michael

    Wilhelm Mohnke

  26. Hugh Futcher

    Sidney Mayer

  27. Jill Balcon

    Lady Alexandra Dacre

  28. Hugh Simon

    Peter Kuehsel

  29. Tony Sibbald

    Maynard Parker

  30. Gabrielle Blunt

    Gerda Christian

  31. Norman Chancer

    Gerhard Weinberg

  32. Janet Crawford

    Mrs Fritz Stiefel

  33. Devon Scott

    Barbara Dickmann

  34. Michael Elwyn

    Brian MacArthur

  35. Trevor Baxter

    Frank Giles

  36. Edwin Craig

    William Broyles

  37. Caroline Strong

    Valkyrie

  38. Elizabeth Spender

    Valkyrie

  39. John Quentin

    Selling Hitler

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 39 , Crews : 1

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Selling Hitler (1991) 256 Min

ALL 06/11/1991 (en)
Comedy, Drama
  • Release 06/11/1991
  • Production
    Thames Television, Warner Sisters Productions, ITV, Euston Films
  • Original title Selling Hitler
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Alastair Reid

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer