Selling Hitler (1993) — comedy, drama, tv-movie film. Directed by Alastair Reid. Starring Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Alan Bennett, Tom Baker. This page maps 2 characters and 1 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A celebrated historical discovery collapses when financial misconduct, misplaced expert trust, and crude forgery are exposed.
Comedy, Drama, TV Movie · 8/10 · 256 min · 1993
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.
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