Selling Hitler

Selling Hitler

256 mins | June 11, 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.

Selling Hitler

256 mins | June 11, 1991

Selling Hitler
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.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers
Original title Selling Hitler
Directors Alastair Reid
Writers

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

Roger Lloyd Pack

as David Irving

Richard Wilson

as Henri Nannen

Peter Capaldi

as Thomas Walde

Julie T. Wallace

as Edith Lieblang

Barry Humphries

as Rupert Murdoch

John Shrapnel

as Gerd Schulte-Hillen

Alison Steadman

as Edda Goering

Frederick Jaeger

as Fritz Stiefel

Olivier Pierre

as Peter Koch

Thomas Wheatley

as Jan Hensmann

John Paul

as Karl Wolff

Philip Fox

as Leo Pesch

Philip Bowen

as Wilfried Sorge

Elaine Collins

as Maria Modritsch

Gregory de Polnay

as Philip Knightley

Tristram Jellinek

as Magnus Linklater

James Aubrey

as Congo Randy

Anthony Dawson

as Marquis of Bath

Michael Lees

as Hans Bauer

Ralph Michael

as Wilhelm Mohnke

Hugh Futcher

as Sidney Mayer

Jill Balcon

as Lady Alexandra Dacre

Hugh Simon

as Peter Kuehsel

Tony Sibbald

as Maynard Parker

Gabrielle Blunt

as Gerda Christian

Norman Chancer

as Gerhard Weinberg

Janet Crawford

as Mrs Fritz Stiefel

Devon Scott

as Barbara Dickmann

Michael Elwyn

as Brian MacArthur

Trevor Baxter

as Frank Giles

Edwin Craig

as William Broyles

Caroline Strong

as Valkyrie

Elizabeth Spender

as Valkyrie

John Quentin

as Selling Hitler