Selling Hitler
Selling Hitler
Release: 1993-04-20
·Runtime: 256m
·★ 7.0
Comedy
Drama
TV Movie
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Thames Television
Warner Sisters Productions
ITV
Euston Films
Cast
Thomas Wheatley
as Jan Hensmann
John Paul
as Karl Wolff
Anthony Dawson
as Marquis of Bath
Norman Chancer
as Gerhard Weinberg
Ralph Michael
as Wilhelm Mohnke
Michael Elwyn
as Brian MacArthur
Olivier Pierre
as Peter Koch
John Shrapnel
as Gerd Schulte-Hillen
Tristram Jellinek
as Magnus Linklater
Devon Scott
as Barbara Dickmann
Alexei Sayle
as Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Alison Doody
as Gina Heidemann
Jill Balcon
as Lady Alexandra Dacre
Alan Bennett
as Hugh Trevor-Roper
Roger Lloyd Pack
as David Irving
Richard Wilson
as Henri Nannen
Frederick Jaeger
as Fritz Stiefel
Barry Humphries
as Rupert Murdoch
James Aubrey
as Congo Randy
John Quentin
as Selling Hitler
Tom Baker
as Manfred Fischer
Peter Capaldi
as Thomas Walde
Julie T. Wallace
as Edith Lieblang
Trevor Baxter
as Frank Giles
Jonathan Pryce
as Gerd Heidemann
Alison Steadman
as Edda Goering
Michael Lees
as Hans Bauer
Hugh Simon
as Peter Kuehsel
Caroline Strong
as Valkyrie