Selling Hitler

Release Date: 1993-04-20

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.

Rating: 7 / 10

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