As a small boy in bombed-out Berlin Fritz Knobel had already run a lucrative business selling self-made »Führer memerobilia« to American soldiers. Little Fritz grows up to be Professor Doctor Knobel, an art forger with a sluggish turnover. At a »Commrades Evening« in honour of Hitler's birthday he meets the slippery tabloid reporter Hermann Willié (Götz George). When Knobel shows him his latest work - Hitler's »Secret Diaries« - Willié secures the exclusive rights to the international sensation for himself and his paper, and his career skyrockets. The true film of the true story of the Führer's true diary is a cheeky, camp grotesquerie which comes off thanks to a solid cast of charismatic performers.
Director
Helmut Dietl
Screenplay
Helmut Dietl, Ulrich Limmer
Producers
Günter Rohrbach, Helmut Dietl
Executive Producers
Ulrich Limmer
Cinematography
Xaver Schwarzenberger
Editing
Tanja Schmidbauer
Music
Konstantin Wecker
Sound
Chris Price
Cast
Götz George, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Christiane Hörbiger, Rolf Hoppe, Dagmar Manzel, Veronica Ferres, Rosemarie Fendel, Karl Schönböck, Harald Juhnke, Ulrich Mühe, Martin Benrath, Andreas Lukoschik, Hark Bohm
Domestic Sales
Constantin Film GmbH & Co
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Production
Bavaria Film
Co-Production
WDR
