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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.
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- 1991-06-11
- Comedy, Drama
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
