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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12 March 1992 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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Kummer: Yes, this is how the Führer wrote.
Dr. Wieland: Incredibly well survived, this nice german writing. Too bad, too bad I can't read it.
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(from the movie "Der Kongress tanzt")
Performed by Lilian Harvey
Additional orchestration by Werner R. Heymann
Courtesy of Ufaton-Verlagsgesellschaft and BMG Ariola, Munich
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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
Dr. Wieland: [looking inside one of Hitler's diaries] I see, this must be old german.Kummer: Yes, this is how the Führer wrote.
Dr. Wieland: Incredibly well survived, this nice german writing. Too bad, too bad I can't read it.
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Das gibt's nur einmal(from the movie "Der Kongress tanzt")
Performed by Lilian Harvey
Additional orchestration by Werner R. Heymann
Courtesy of Ufaton-Verlagsgesellschaft and BMG Ariola, Munich
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Dietl´s movie is based on real events, in 1983 a forger called Konrad Kujau made millions of dollars by writing the bogus diaries of Adolf Hitler. Although the movie has a poor start it developes into a
pretty good comedy, The most amusing parts are the wordgames, and the performances of Uwe Oschenknecht as the slick antique salesman/forger and Götz Georg as equally
slick journalist.
I real life the Stern magazine which bought the diaries had a proper lesson when they received a letter written (in Hitler´s handwriting!) by an anonymous German humorist:
"I hereby confirm that my diaries are real"
Signed: A.Hitler