Selling Hitler

4h 16m

Comedy Drama TV Movie

7

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.

Cast

Jonathan Pryce

Gerd Heidemann

Alexei Sayle

Konrad 'Conny' Fischer

Alan Bennett

Hugh Trevor-Roper

Tom Baker

Manfred Fischer

Alison Doody

Gina Heidemann

Roger Lloyd Pack

David Irving

Richard Wilson

Henri Nannen

Peter Capaldi

Thomas Walde

Julie T. Wallace

Edith Lieblang

Barry Humphries

Rupert Murdoch

John Shrapnel

Gerd Schulte-Hillen

Alison Steadman

Edda Goering

Frederick Jaeger

Fritz Stiefel

Olivier Pierre

Peter Koch

Thomas Wheatley

Jan Hensmann

John Paul

Karl Wolff

Philip Fox

Leo Pesch

Philip Bowen

Wilfried Sorge

Elaine Collins

Maria Modritsch

Gregory de Polnay

Philip Knightley

Tristram Jellinek

Magnus Linklater

James Aubrey

Congo Randy

Anthony Dawson

Marquis of Bath

Michael Lees

Hans Bauer

Ralph Michael

Wilhelm Mohnke

Hugh Futcher

Sidney Mayer

Jill Balcon

Lady Alexandra Dacre

Hugh Simon

Peter Kuehsel

Tony Sibbald

Maynard Parker

Gabrielle Blunt

Gerda Christian

Norman Chancer

Gerhard Weinberg

Janet Crawford

Mrs Fritz Stiefel

Devon Scott

Barbara Dickmann

Michael Elwyn

Brian MacArthur

Trevor Baxter

Frank Giles

Edwin Craig

William Broyles

Caroline Strong

Valkyrie

Elizabeth Spender

Valkyrie

John Quentin

Selling Hitler

Crew

Alastair Reid

Director