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Schtonk!

One of the first funny german look at its past.

Genres

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Overview

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.

Details

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Runtime

115 min

Release Date

1992-03-12

Status

Released

Original Language

German

Vote Count

69

Vote Average

7

Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.

Götz George

Hermann Willié

Uwe Ochsenknecht

Fritz Knobel

Christiane Hörbiger

Freya von Hepp

Harald Juhnke

Pit Kummer

Ulrich Mühe

Dr. Wieland

Rolf Hoppe

Karl Lentz

Dagmar Manzel

Biggi

Veronica Ferres

Martha

Hermann Lause

Kurt Glück

Martin Benrath

Uwe Esser

Georg Marischka

Von Klantz

Karl Schönböck

August Strasser

Rosemarie Fendel

Karl Lentz's Wife

Wolfgang Menge

German Graphologist

Hark Bohm

Priest

Willy Harlander

Bavarian Border Official

Thomas Holtzmann

Cornelius

Hans-Joachim Hegewald

Schuback

Peter Roggisch

Obersturmbandführer

Günter Junghans

East German Police Officer

Armin Rohde

SS Man

Michael Kessler

SS Man

Martin Feifel

SS Man

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