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.
Directed by Alastair Reid
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Cast

Jonathan Pryce
Gerd Heidemann

Alexei Sayle
Konrad 'Conny' Fischer

Alan Bennett
Hugh Trevor-Roper

Tom Baker
Manfred Fischer

Alison Doody
Gina Heidemann

Roger Lloyd Pack
David Irving

Richard Wilson
Henri Nannen

Peter Capaldi
Thomas Walde

Julie T. Wallace
Edith Lieblang

Barry Humphries
Rupert Murdoch

John Shrapnel
Gerd Schulte-Hillen

Alison Steadman
Edda Goering

Frederick Jaeger
Fritz Stiefel

Olivier Pierre
Peter Koch
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