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Schtonk! (1992)

ALL 03/12/1992 (de) Comedy, History 115 Min
  • Release
    03/12/1992
  • Production
    Bavaria Film, WDR
  • Rotten tomato
    70%
  • Original title
    Schtonk!
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

One of the first funny german look at its past.

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.

  1. Helmut Dietl

    Director

  2. Story



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  1. Götz George

    Hermann Willié

  2. Uwe Ochsenknecht

    Fritz Knobel

  3. Christiane Hörbiger

    Freya von Hepp

  4. Harald Juhnke

    Pit Kummer

  5. Ulrich Mühe

    Dr. Wieland

  6. Rolf Hoppe

    Karl Lentz

  7. Dagmar Manzel

    Biggi

  8. Veronica Ferres

    Martha

  9. Hermann Lause

    Kurt Glück

  10. Martin Benrath

    Uwe Esser

  11. Georg Marischka

    Von Klantz

  12. Karl Schönböck

    August Strasser

  13. Rosemarie Fendel

    Karl Lentz's Wife

  14. Wolfgang Menge

    German Graphologist

  15. Hark Bohm

    Priest

  16. Willy Harlander

    Bavarian Border Official

  17. Thomas Holtzmann

    Cornelius

  18. Hans-Joachim Hegewald

    Schuback

  19. Peter Roggisch

    Obersturmbandführer

  20. Günter Junghans

    East German Police Officer

  21. Armin Rohde

    SS Man

  22. Michael Kessler

    SS Man

  23. Martin Feifel

    SS Man

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 23 , Crews : 8

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Schtonk! (1992) 115 Min

ALL 03/12/1992 (de)
Comedy, History
  • Release 03/12/1992
  • Production
    Bavaria Film, WDR
  • Original title Schtonk!
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

One of the first funny german look at its past.

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.

  1. Helmut Dietl

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Tanja Schmidbauer

    Editor

  4. Helmut Dietl, Günter Rohrbach

    Producer



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