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
Alexei Sayle
as Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Tom Baker
as Manfred Fischer
Alison Doody
as Gina Heidemann
Thomas Wheatley
as Jan Hensmann
John Paul
as Karl Wolff
Tristram Jellinek
as Magnus Linklater
Michael Lees
as Hans Bauer
Jill Balcon
as Lady Alexandra Dacre
Roger Lloyd Pack
as David Irving
Norman Chancer
as Gerhard Weinberg
Trevor Baxter
as Frank Giles
Caroline Strong
as Valkyrie
Jonathan Pryce
as Gerd Heidemann
Alan Bennett
as Hugh Trevor-Roper
Alison Steadman
as Edda Goering
Anthony Dawson
as Marquis of Bath
John Shrapnel
as Gerd Schulte-Hillen
Olivier Pierre
as Peter Koch
Julie T. Wallace
as Edith Lieblang
Barry Humphries
as Rupert Murdoch
Hugh Simon
as Peter Kuehsel
Devon Scott
as Barbara Dickmann
Richard Wilson
as Henri Nannen
Peter Capaldi
as Thomas Walde
Frederick Jaeger
as Fritz Stiefel
James Aubrey
as Congo Randy
Michael Elwyn
as Brian MacArthur
Ralph Michael
as Wilhelm Mohnke
John Quentin
as Selling Hitler