The slightly fictionalized story of an art forger, a journalist desperate for a big story, and the biggest press scandal in German history: the Hitler Diaries.
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| Götz George | ... | Hermann Willié | |
| Uwe Ochsenknecht | ... | Fritz Knobel | |
| Christiane Hörbiger | ... | Freya von Hepp | |
| Rolf Hoppe | ... | Karl Lentz | |
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Dagmar Manzel | ... | Biggi |
| Veronica Ferres | ... | Martha | |
| Ulrich Mühe | ... | Dr. Wieland | |
| Martin Benrath | ... | Uwe Esser | |
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Hermann Lause | ... | Kurt Glück |
| Karl Schönböck | ... | Professor Strasser | |
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Rosemarie Fendel | ... | Mrs. Lentz |
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Georg Marischka | ... | Von Klantz |
| Thomas Holtzmann | ... | Notary Cornelius | |
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Hark Bohm | ... | Catholic pastor |
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Willy Harlander | ... | Bavarian customs officer |
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Fritz is a falsifier drawing a picture of Eva Braun, the girlfriend of Adolf Hitler. He meets Hermann and tells him about some Nazi- material he knows about. Herrmann, working for a great German magazine, pays for everything he can get, and so Fritz starts to write "Hitlers private daybook". The story covers a real event that happend in Germany in the middle of the eighties. Written by Wolfgang Klimt <wolfii@leo.org>
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Composed by Richard Wagner
Performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra (as The London Philharmonic Orchestra)
Conducted by Enrique Bátiz
Courtesy of Selected Sound Musikverlag
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Mario Adorf wanted to play in this movie, preferably the role of Hermann Willié, which went to Götz George, or the role of Fritz Knobel, which went to Uwe Ochsenknecht. Adorf later admitted that he had been offended for a few years, that Helmut Dietl didn't cast him in any role. See more »Goofs
When Freya von Hepp hands Hermann Willié Göring's bathrobe and offers him to try it on, Willié's answer doesn't match his almost motionless lips. See more »Quotes
Fritz Knobel: As soon as the ashes of the Führer had cooled down, the demand for relics of the "1000 Year Reich" soared.See more »
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Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und IsoldeComposed by Richard Wagner
Performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra (as The London Philharmonic Orchestra)
Conducted by Enrique Bátiz
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A horribly heavy-handed attempt to turn the real-life case of the forged Hitler diaries into a German comedy (a contradiction in terms, if you ask me, and I am German), this schtinker is an unabashedly broad, strictly one-note stab at what director Dietl probably takes for satire. Based on a pedestrian script which provides no laughs at all (except if you're a die-hard fan of fart jokes, that is), it features sleazy, grotesquely over-the-top performances by basically everyone involved (although George and Ochsenknecht stand out as particularly hammy), ugly, overlit photography and an unnervingly blaring score. Dietl not only proves that he has no sense of timing whatsoever - each and every punchline can be seen coming round the bend a mile away and is milked to the last drop when it finally arrives - but also displays a disturbingly childish penchant for "dirty" words which, quite obviously, he thinks are funny by themselves. To top it all off, at nearly two hours running time, the whole affair is so interminably drawn out it'll bore you to near-death. Avoid at any cost - and please do yourself a favor and give Dietl's other films (especially "Late Show" and "Rossini") a very wide berth, too: they're even worse.