Jonathan Pryce
Gerd Heidemann
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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.
- (154)
- 1991-06-11
- Comedy, Drama
- 60
Sep 12, 2013 · 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', plus a "special volume" about Rudolf Hess's flight to the United Kingdom, covering the period from 1932 to 1945.
Emmy nominee Jonathan Pryce (Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean) stars as Gerd "The Bloodhound" Heidemann, a German reporter who sniffs out a scoop that will revive his stalled career: the lost diaries of Adolf Hitler.
As Stern's management plots a marketing strategy, skeptical British historian David Irving gets wind of Hitler's recently "rediscovered" documents.
Overview. Based on the book by Robert Harris, this is a comic-dramatisation of the true story of the one of the most famous forgery cases in the world, the infamous 'Hitler Diaries' of the early 1980s.
Jun 11, 1991 · Genres Comedy. Based on the book by Robert Harris, this is a comic-dramatisation of the true story of the one of the most famous forgery cases in the world, the infamous 'Hitler Diaries' of the early 1980s.
Miniseries. Add Show to Watchlist. In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a bloodhound reporter for the German magazine Stern, believes he has stumbled onto the greatest literary find of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler.
