Schtonk
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 o…
Schtonk
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 <wolfii@leo.org> Even as a boy in bombed-out Berlin, Fritz Knobel discovered how to do good business with the gullible and gullible: He sells his customers genuine "Führer" memorabilia that he has actually fabricated himself. As an adult, Fritz finally poses as the art and antiques dealer "Professor Dr. Knobel" and works on forgeries of all kinds, but without being able to capitalize on them. When Knobel meets Hermann Willié, a cash-strapped reporter for the magazine "HH-Press", at a "comradeship evening", fate takes its course - Knobel has just produced a secret "Diary of the Führer". Willié senses a global sensation and opens the money taps at his publishing house, while Knobel works hard to produce his magnum opus. When the "Hitler Diaries" are presented to an astonished public, Willié sees himself at the peak of his career. But not for long. —Arte
Schtonk
Comedy,Crime
Film Details
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 <wolfii@leo.org> Even as a boy in bombed-out Berlin, Fritz Knobel discovered how to do good business with the gullible and gullible: He sells his customers genuine "Führer" memorabilia that he has actually fabricated himself.
As an adult, Fritz finally poses as the art and antiques dealer "Professor Dr. Knobel" and works on forgeries of all kinds, but without being able to capitalize on them. When Knobel meets Hermann Willié, a cash-strapped reporter for the magazine "HH-Press", at a "comradeship evening", fate takes its course - Knobel has just produced a secret "Diary of the Führer".
Willié senses a global sensation and opens the money taps at his publishing house, while Knobel works hard to produce his magnum opus. When the "Hitler Diaries" are presented to an astonished public, Willié sees himself at the peak of his career. But not for long.
—Arte.