Film · 1993 · 4h 16m

Selling Hitler

Name: Selling Hitler
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1993-04-20
Duration: 4 h 16 min
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Alan Bennett, Tom Baker, Alison Doody

Comedy Drama

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Synopsis

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.