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7.0/10 • 64

1992-03-121h 55m

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One of the first funny german look at its past.

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.

Directors
Helmut Dietl
Editors
Tanja Schmidbauer

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  1. Götz George

    Götz George

    Hermann Willié

  2. Uwe Ochsenknecht

    Uwe Ochsenknecht

    Fritz Knobel

  3. Christiane Hörbiger

    Christiane Hörbiger

    Freya von Hepp

  4. Harald Juhnke

    Harald Juhnke

    Pit Kummer

  5. Ulrich Mühe

    Ulrich Mühe

    Dr. Wieland

  6. Rolf Hoppe

    Rolf Hoppe

    Karl Lentz

  7. Dagmar Manzel

    Dagmar Manzel

    Biggi

  8. Veronica Ferres

    Veronica Ferres

    Martha

  9. Hermann Lause

    Hermann Lause

    Kurt Glück

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Status
Released
Original Language
German
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
nazidiaryportrait paintingfakeadolf hitler