Selling Hitler (1991)

Comedy
Drama

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

Gerd Heidemann
Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Gerd Schulte-Hillen
Edda Goering
Fritz Stiefel
Jan Hensmann
Karl Wolff
Leo Pesch
Wilfried Sorge
Maria Modritsch
Philip Knightley
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Magnus Linklater
Congo Randy
Marquis of Bath
Hans Bauer
Wilhelm Mohnke
Sidney Mayer
Lady Alexandra Dacre
Peter Kuehsel
Maynard Parker
Gerda Christian
Manfred Fischer
Gerhard Weinberg
Mrs Fritz Stiefel
Barbara Dickmann
Brian MacArthur
Frank Giles
William Broyles
Selling Hitler
Gina Heidemann
David Irving
Henri Nannen
Thomas Walde
Edith Lieblang
Rupert Murdoch

Crew