Movie
Selling Hitler
film with a runtime of 256 minutes, released in 1990. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
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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Cast
- Jonathan Pryce
- Alexei Sayle
- Alan Bennett
- Tom Baker
- Alison Doody
- Roger Lloyd Pack
- Richard Wilson
- Peter Capaldi
- Julie T. Wallace
- Barry Humphries
- John Shrapnel
- Alison Steadman
- Frederick Jaeger
- Olivier Pierre
- Thomas Wheatley
- John Paul
- Philip Fox
- Philip Bowen
- Elaine Collins
- Gregory de Polnay
- Tristram Jellinek
- James Aubrey
- Anthony Dawson
- Michael Lees
- Ralph Michael
- Hugh Futcher
- Jill Balcon
- Hugh Simon
- Tony Sibbald
- Gabrielle Blunt
- Norman Chancer
- Janet Crawford
- Devon Scott
- Michael Elwyn
- Trevor Baxter
- Edwin Craig
- Caroline Strong
- Elizabeth Spender
- John Quentin
