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Selling Hitler
Starring: Julie T. Wallace , Jonathan Pryce
Directed by: Alastair Reid
Produced by: Andrew Brown
Written by: Robert Harris , Howard Schuman
In 1983, the German magazine Stern scored the publishing coup of the 20th century: exclusive excerpts from Adolf Hitler's personal diaries. The magazine paid unstable journalist Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce, Cranford) the equivalent of $6 million for the 60 volumes, supposedly written between 1932 and 1945. There was just one problem-it was all a hoax, and a fairly obvious one to boot!
Item Number: 15707
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 4 1/2 Hours
- Number of Discs:
- 2
In 1983, the German magazine Stern scored the publishing coup of the 20th century: exclusive excerpts from Adolf Hitler's personal diaries. The magazine paid unstable journalist Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce, Cranford) the equivalent of $6 million for the 60 volumes, supposedly written between 1932 and 1945. There was just one problem-it was all a hoax, and a fairly obvious one to boot! Based on journalist Robert Harris's best-selling account, this 1991 mini-series tells the story of the fraud, with an all-star cast including Tom Baker (Doctor Who), Alan Bennett (A Dance to the Music of Time), Richard Wilson (Merlin) and Alexei Sayle (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) as notorious forger Konrad Fischer.
| Edith Lieblang | --- | Julie T. Wallace |
| Gerd Heidemann | --- | Jonathan Pryce |
| Konrad 'Conny' Fischer | --- | Alexei Sayle |
| Gina Heidemann | --- | Alison Doody |
| Henri Nannen | --- | Richard Wilson |
| Manfred Fischer | --- | Tom Baker |
| Peter Koch | --- | Olivier Pierre |
| Leo Pesch | --- | Philip Fox |
| Valkyrie | --- | Rosemary Allen |
| Congo Randy | --- | James Aubrey |
| Lady Alexandra Darco | --- | Jill Balcon |
| Frank Giles | --- | Trevor Baxter |
| Sir Hugh (Hugo) Trevor-Roper | --- | Alan Bennett |
| Gerda Christian | --- | Gabrielle Blunt |
| August Priesack | --- | John Boswall |
| Wilfried Sorge | --- | Philip Bowen |
| Young policeman | --- | Martin Byrne-Quinn |
| Thomas Walde | --- | Peter Capaldi |
Directed by Alastair Reid
Written by Robert Harris, Howard Schuman
Produced by Andrew Brown, Paul Sparrow
Original Music by John E. Keane, Tim Souster
