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.
Main Cast of Selling Hitler
Jonathan Pryce
Gerd Heidemann
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Alexei Sayle
Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Alan Bennett
Hugh Trevor-Roper
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Tom Baker
Manfred Fischer
Secondary Cast of Selling Hitler
John Paul
Karl Wolff
Philip Fox
Leo Pesch
Philip Bowen
Wilfried Sorge
Elaine Collins
Maria Modritsch
Gregory de Polnay
Philip Knightley
Hugh Futcher
Sidney Mayer
Tony Sibbald
Maynard Parker
Gabrielle Blunt
Gerda Christian
Janet Crawford
Mrs Fritz Stiefel
Edwin Craig
William Broyles
Elizabeth Spender
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Crew of Selling Hitler
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