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.
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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
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