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Selling Hitler: With Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Alison Doody, Julie T. Wallace. The true story of the biggest fraud in publishing history - the Hitler diaries.
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.
Heidemann convinces Stern magazine's owners to pay for his acquisition of Hitler's diaries. But they bankroll much more than they bargained for.
Mar 10, 2011 · Soon historians, Newsweek magazine, and Rupert Murdoch are on board—but the diaries are fake. Based on a true story of greed and stupidity, this uproarious farce stars Emmy® nominee Jonathan ...
Jul 13, 2010 · If you were unaware of the Hitler diaries hoax of 1981-83, the scenario and personalities of the British TV mini-series docudrama, 'Selling Hitler', might seem so improbable as to be a Mel Brooks-devised slapstick farce.
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Sep 12, 2013 · Selling Hitler - Robert Harris BBC Productions. 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.
Based on a true story, this uproarious farce dramatizes the making of a modern-day publishing fiasco. Emmy nominee Jonathan Pryce (Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean) stars as Gerd.
