Rent Selling Hitler: Series (1991)
3.7 of 5 from 47 ratings
4h 17min
- General info
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- 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' 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.
- Actors:
- Jonathan Pryce, Alexei Sayle, Alison Doody, Julie T. Wallace, Richard Wilson, Olivier Pierre, Philip Fox, Peter Capaldi, Tom Baker, Philip Bowen, Elaine Collins, John Shrapnel, Elizabeth Spender, Thomas Wheatley, Rosemary Allen, John Boswall, Conor Chamberlain, Zannah Lea, Annette Lynton, Caroline Strong
- Directors:
- Alastair Reid
- Producers:
- Andrew Brown
- Writers:
- Robert Harris, Howard Schuman
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Comedies, TV Dramas
