Selling Hitler
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce), 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’ (Alexei Sayle) 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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Genre: Uncategorized
Director: Alastair Reid
Actors: Alan Bennett, Alexei Sayle, Alison Doody, Barry Humphries, Jonathan Pryce, Julie T. Wallace, Peter Capaldi, Richard Wilson, Roger Lloyd Pack, Tom Baker
Country: UK
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