Selling Hitler 1991
Selling Hitler
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.
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.
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Full Cast & Crew... Gerd Heidemann
... Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
... Hugh Trevor-Roper
... Manfred Fischer
... Gina Heidemann
... David Irving
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Release Date:
Jun 11, 1991 (United Kingdom)
Run Time:
4hr 16`
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Original Language:
English
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Status:
Released
Cast & Crew of
Selling Hitler
Directors & Credit Writers
... Director
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
JP
John Paul... Karl Wolff
PF
Philip Fox... Leo Pesch
PB
Philip Bowen... Wilfried Sorge
... Maria Modritsch
... Philip Knightley