Director: Helmut Dietl
Script: Helmut Dietl, Ulrich Limmer
Photography: Xaver Schwarzenberger
Editor: Tanja Schmidbauer
Sound: Chris Price
Music: Konstantin Wecker
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
Producer: Günter Rohrbach, Helmut Dietl
Executive Producer: Ulrich Limmer
Production: Bavaria Film
Co-production: WDR
Awards:
Deutscher Filmpreis (Filmband in Gold) 1992 als Bester Film sowie an Helmut Dietl für die Beste Regie und Götz George für seine darstellerischen Leistungen
Oscar® Nomination for Best Foreign Film 1993
Golden Globe Nomination for Best Foreign Film 1993
German Distribution: Constantin Film GmbH & Co
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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.