Selling Hitler
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.
Average Score : 70
Status: Released
Release Date: 1991-06-11
Production Companies Thames Television Warner Sisters Productions ITV Euston Films
Production Countries United Kingdom,
Run time: 256 minutes
Budget: --
Revenue: --
