Selling Hitler (Complete Series) - 2-DVD Set

Selling Hitler (Complete Series) - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
257 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1991 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Alastair Reid

Written By:
Robert Harris
Howard Schuman

Actors:
Jonathan Pryce ..... Gerd Heidemann
Alexei Sayle ..... Konrad 'Conny' Fischer
Alison Doody ..... Gina Heidemann
Julie T. Wallace ..... Edith Lieblang
Richard Wilson ..... Henri Nannen
Tom Baker ..... Manfred Fischer
Olivier Pierre ..... Peter Koch
Philip Fox ..... Leo Pesch
Rosemary Allen ..... Valkyrie
James Aubrey ..... Congo Randy
Jill Balcon ..... Lady Alexandra Darco
Trevor Baxter ..... Frank Giles
Alan Bennett ..... Sir Hugh (Hugo) Trevor-Roper
Gabrielle Blunt ..... Gerda Christian
John Boswall ..... August Priesack
Philip Bowen ..... Wilfried Sorge
Martin Byrne-Quinn ..... Young policeman
Peter Capaldi ..... Thomas Walde
Conor Chamberlain ..... Valkyrie
Norman Chancer ..... Gerhard Weinberg
Elaine Collins ..... Maria Modritsch
Edwin Craig ..... William Broyles
Janet Crawford ..... Mrs. Fritz Stiefel
Philip Croskin ..... Dr. Arnold Rentz
Tim Crouch ..... Reporter at airport
Anthony Dawson ..... Marquess of Bath
Gregory de Polnay ..... Philip Knightley
Michael Elwyn ..... Brian MacArthur
Hugh Futcher ..... Sidney Mayer
John Golightly ..... Eberhard Jaekel
Bob Goody ..... Chairman, nazi rally
Robert Harris ..... Newsnight interviewer
Jerry Harte ..... Louis Wolfe
Thomasine Heiner ..... Mrs. Price
Simon Holmes ..... Reporter at prison
Barry Humphries ..... Rupert Murdoch
Elaine Ives-Cameron ..... American lady reporter
Frederick Jaeger ..... Fritz Stiefel
Otto Jarman ..... Wolf Thieme
Tristram Jellinek ..... Magnus Linklater
Roger Kemp ..... Boatman
Zannah Lea ..... Valkyrie
Michael Lees ..... Hans Bauer
Roger Lloyd-Pack ..... David Irving
Robert Longden ..... Dr. Louis Werner
Annette Lynton ..... Valkyrie
Eric Mason ..... Party guest
Ralph Michael ..... Wilhelm Mohnke
Charlotte Mitchell ..... Lady Katherine Giles
Hugh Munro ..... Party guest
Philip O'Brien ..... Mark Edmiston
Christopher Owen ..... Dr. Joseph Henke
John Paul ..... Karl Wolff
George Phillips ..... Reporter at prison
John Quentin ..... Charles Douglas-Home
Mary Ellen Ray ..... Lynn Nesbit
Bill Reimbold ..... Handwriting analyist
John Scarborough ..... Handwriting analyst
Devon Scott ..... Barbara Dickmann
Bob Sessions ..... Billy F. Price
John Shrapnel ..... Gerd Schulte-Hillen
Tony Sibbald ..... Maynard Parker
Hugh Simon ..... Peter Kuehsel
Elizabeth Spencer ..... Marlene
Elizabeth Spender ..... Valkyrie
Charles Spicer ..... TV reporter
Alison Steadman ..... Edda Goering
Caroline Strong ..... Valkyrie
Leon Tanner ..... Richard Searby
James Taylor ..... Dr. Max Frei-Sulzer
Lawrence Thornbury ..... Reporter at airport
Thomas Wheatley ..... Jan Hensmann

Synopsis:

The sensational 'discovery' of Hitler's diaries and subsequent realisation that they were forged caused a world-wide scandal in 1983. Alastair Reid's tongue-in-cheek five-part dramatisation, based on Robert Harris's best-selling novel, exposes the machinations that led to Stern magazine's announcement of the scoop of the century, the ensuing bidding war for serialisation rights, acrimony among the eminent historians who were taken in and, finally, the diaries' exposure as an elaborate hoax. Winner of a Royal Television Society award, this Euston Films mini-series features a luminary cast - including, among many others, Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Tom Baker, Alan Bennett, Peter Capaldi and Barry Humphries.

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. Shrouded in secrecy, Heidemann and the men of Stern attempt to pull off the greatest scoop in publishing history, blinded by their greed to the fact that the diaries are, in fact, crude forgeries. A true story.

Dramatisation of the true story of Konrad Fischer, an East German who fooled the world (including the UK's "The Times" newspaper, Germany's "Stern" magazine and eminent historian Hugh Trevor-Roper) when he produced what he claimed were the war-time diaries of Adolf Hitler, but which were in fact his own forgeries.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 13 March, 2014.