Summaries

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.

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.—Wolfgang Klimt <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • journalist
  • forgery
  • reference to the nazis
  • art forgery
  • phony hitler diary
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Crime
Release date Mar 11, 1992
Countries of origin Germany
Language German
Filming locations Odenthal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Production companies Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Box office

Budget $16000000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 55m
Color Color
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Synopsis

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