Schtonk!

Schtonk! (1992)

One of the first funny german look at its past.

  • Genre: Comedy, History
  • Release Date: 1992-03-12
  • User Rating: 7/10 from 64 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 55min
  • Language: Deutsch
  • Production Company: Bavaria Film
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Director: Helmut Dietl
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Summary

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.

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  • Götz George

    as Hermann Willié
  • Uwe Ochsenknecht

    as Fritz Knobel
  • Christiane Hörbiger

    as Freya von Hepp
  • Harald Juhnke

    as Pit Kummer
  • Ulrich Mühe

    as Dr. Wieland
  • Rolf Hoppe

    as Karl Lentz
  • Dagmar Manzel

    as Biggi
  • Veronica Ferres

    as Martha
  • Hermann Lause

    as Kurt Glück
  • Martin Benrath

    as Uwe Esser
  • Georg Marischka

    as Von Klantz
  • Karl Schönböck

    as August Strasser
  • Rosemarie Fendel

    as Karl Lentz's Wife
  • Wolfgang Menge

    as German Graphologist
  • Hark Bohm

    as Priest
  • Willy Harlander

    as Bavarian Border Official
  • Thomas Holtzmann

    as Cornelius
  • Hans-Joachim Hegewald

    as Schuback
  • Peter Roggisch

    as Obersturmbandführer
  • Günter Junghans

    as East German Police Officer
  • Armin Rohde

    as SS Man
  • Michael Kessler

    as SS Man
  • Martin Feifel

    as SS Man
Production Helmut Dietl Producer
Directing Helmut Dietl Director
Writing Helmut Dietl Screenplay
Camera Xaver Schwarzenberger Director of Photography
Editing Tanja Schmidbauer Editor
Sound Konstantin Wecker Original Music Composer
Writing Ulrich Limmer Screenplay
Production Günter Rohrbach Producer