Selling Hitler

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 20, 1993

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United Kingdom

Production

Euston Films,ITV,Thames Television,Warner Sisters Productions

Cast

Barry Humphries,John Quentin,Frederick Jaeger,Janet Crawford,Richard Wilson,Philip Bowen,Anthony Dawson,Michael Lees,Gabrielle Blunt,Devon Scottand 29 more

Director

Alastair Reid

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0124256