# Faking Hitler (2021)

> A hungry journalist believes he has found Hitler's secret diary, but it is the work of a charismatic forger.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/115579

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 46 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, history
- Created by: Thomas Vass
- Network: RTL+
- Cast: Lars Eidinger, Moritz Bleibtreu, Sinje Irslinger, Daniel Donskoy, Ulrich Tukur, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Tristan Seith, Richard Sammel
- TMDB rating: 7.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14418368/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: sardonic, tense, darkly comic, absurd

## What critics say

Critics broadly praise the lead performances and the sharp media satire, while finding the tone uneven at times.

## Synopsis

Faking Hitler (2021) is a German limited series created by Thomas Vass for RTL+. Journalist Gerd Heidemann (Lars Eidinger) is a reporter who always chases the big story, and when he learns of a supposed diary written by Adolf Hitler he sees the scoop of the century. The engine of the six episodes is his growing certainty colliding with the schemes of Konrad Kujau (Moritz Bleibtreu), a charismatic art dealer and petty criminal whose forgeries keep the lie alive. Around them, a web of editors, colleagues and associates, including Elisabeth Stöckel (Sinje Irslinger) and Hans Stöckel (Ulrich Tukur), tests who is willing to look away from doubt. The show unfolds as a true-events dramatization of a media scandal, set in the West Germany of the 1980s, where ambition, vanity and a nation's unresolved memory of the Nazi past collide. Its tone is sardonic and tense, with a darkly comic edge that keeps the deception feeling both absurd and dangerous. Viewers who enjoy the scam-driven tension of The Hoax or the playful deceit of Catch Me If You Can will find the same appetite for con artistry here, along with a sharp look at how the press can be seduced by what it wants to believe. The series runs for one season of six episodes, each about forty-six minutes long.

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