Selling Hitler
movie
Released April 20, 1993
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.
Cast
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