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      • Selling Hitler is a 1991 ITV television comedy-drama mini-series about the Hitler Diaries hoax and was based on Robert Harris's 1986 book Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries.


      Plot


      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 diary of Adolf Hitler.
      Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay DM 9.3 million to a mysterious "Dr Fischer" (Alexei Sayle) for the sixty volumes of Hitler's diaries, covering the period from 1932 to 1945, plus a special volume about the flight of Rudolf Hess to the United Kingdom. Some of the money is made as payment to "Dr Fischer", but the larger proportion goes into Heidemann's pocket to finance his extravagant lifestyle and collection of World War II memorabilia, including the yacht of Hermann Göring.
      To the dismay of all, including eminent historians such as Hugh Trevor-Roper (Alan Bennett), who had verified the diaries as authentic, it is discovered after the publication of the first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.


      Cast


      The five-part series was directed by Alastair Reid and starred:

      Jonathan Pryce as Gerd Heidemann
      Alexei Sayle as Konrad Kujau (aka "Dr Fischer")
      Tom Baker as Manfred Fischer, CEO of Gruner + Jahr
      Alan Bennett as Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre of Glanton)
      Roger Lloyd-Pack as David Irving
      Richard Wilson as Henri Nannen
      Alison Doody as Gina Heidemann
      Julie T. Wallace as Edith Lieblang
      Peter Capaldi as Thomas Walde
      Elaine Collins as Maria Modritsch
      John Shrapnel as Gerd Schulte-Hillen
      Alison Steadman as Edda Göring
      Philip Fox as Leo Pesch
      John Boswall as August Priesack
      John Paul as Karl Wolff
      Barry Humphries as Rupert Murdoch
      Devon Scott as Barbara Dickmann
      Bob Goody as Nazi rally Chairman
      Robert Longden as Dr. Louis Werner
      Mary Ellen Ray as Lynn Nesbit
      Elizabeth Spender as Marlene
      The series, which The Guardian described as "a rollicking comedy with black edges", was released on Region 1 DVD in July 2010.


      See also


      Schtonk!, 1992 German comedy film about the same subject matter


      References




      External links


      Selling Hitler at IMDb
      Selling Hitler at Rotten Tomatoes

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