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Selling Hitler (1991)

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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Runtime: 256 mins Rating: 7.0

Cast

Barry Humphries

Barry Humphries

Rupert Murdoch

Jonathan Pryce

Jonathan Pryce

Gerd Heidemann

Alison Doody

Alison Doody

Gina Heidemann

Alexei Sayle

Alexei Sayle

Konrad 'Conny' Fischer

John Shrapnel

John Shrapnel

Gerd Schulte-Hillen

Edwin Craig

Edwin Craig

William Broyles

Anthony Dawson

Anthony Dawson

Marquis of Bath

Thomas Wheatley

Thomas Wheatley

Jan Hensmann

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Alastair Reid

Alastair Reid

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