Schtonk! (1992)
1h 55m
Running Time
March 12, 1992Release Date
Schtonk! (1992)
1h 55m
Running Time
March 12, 1992Release Date
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Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Götz George
Hermann Willié
Uwe Ochsenknecht
Fritz Knobel
Harald Juhnke
Pit Kummer
Christiane Hörbiger
Freya von Hepp
Dagmar Manzel
Biggi
Rolf Hoppe
Karl Lentz
Veronica Ferres
Martha
Ulrich Mühe
Dr. Wieland
Martin Benrath
Uwe Esser
Hermann Lause
Kurt Glück
Georg Marischka
Von Klantz
Karl Schönböck
Professor Strasser
Helmut Dietl
Director
Rosemarie Fendel
Karl Lentz's Wife
Ulrich Limmer
Writer
Wolfgang Menge
German Graphologist
Hark Bohm
Priest
Peter Märthesheimer
Writer
Pea Fröhlich
Writer
Willy Harlander
Bavarian Border Official
Thomas Holtzmann
Cornelius
Hans-Joachim Hegewald
Schuback
Günter Rohrbach
Producer
Peter Roggisch
Obersturmbandführer
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Wiki.
Schtonk! (subtitled Der Film zum Buch vom Führer; "The film accompanying the Führer's book") is a 1992 German satirical film which retells the story of the 1983 Hitler Diaries hoax. It was written and directed by Helmut Dietl.