CinemaOSMovie · 1992 · 1h 55m

Schtonk!

One of the first funny german look at its past.

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Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of Adolf Hitler – which two weeks later turned out to be entirely fake. Fritz Knobel (based on real-life forger Konrad Kujau) supports himself by faking and selling Nazi memorabilia. When Knobel writes and sells a volume of Hitler's (nonexistent) diaries, he thinks it's just another job. When sleazy journalist Hermann Willié learns of the diaries, however, he quickly realizes their potential value... and Knobel is quickly in over his head. As the pressure builds and Knobel is forced to deliver more and more volumes of the fake diaries, he finds himself acting increasingly like the man whose life he is rewriting. The film is a romping and hilarious satire, poking fun not only at the events and characters involved in the hoax (who are only thinly disguised in the film), but at the discomfort Germany has with its difficult past.

Directed byHelmut Dietl

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 55m
Language
DE
Released
March 12, 1992
Studios
Bavaria FilmWDR

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Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Götz George

Götz George

Hermann Willié

Uwe Ochsenknecht

Uwe Ochsenknecht

Fritz Knobel

Christiane Hörbiger

Christiane Hörbiger

Freya von Hepp

Harald Juhnke

Harald Juhnke

Pit Kummer

Ulrich Mühe

Ulrich Mühe

Dr. Wieland

Rolf Hoppe

Rolf Hoppe

Karl Lentz

Dagmar Manzel

Dagmar Manzel

Biggi

Veronica Ferres

Veronica Ferres

Martha

Hermann Lause

Hermann Lause

Kurt Glück

Martin Benrath

Martin Benrath

Uwe Esser

Creative team
Directed by
Helmut Dietl
Helmut Dietl
Written by
Helmut Dietl
Helmut Dietl
Ulrich Limmer
Ulrich Limmer
Produced by
Helmut Dietl
Helmut Dietl
Günter Rohrbach
Günter Rohrbach

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