Schtonk

"One of the first funny german look at its past."

Mar 12 1992 N/A 1h 55m
Comedy

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.

Plot

Fritz is a falsifier drawing a picture of Eva Braun, the girlfriend of Adolf Hitler. He meets Hermann and tells him about some Nazi- material he knows about. Herrmann, working for a great German magazine, pays for everything he can get, and so Fritz starts to write "Hitlers private daybook". The story covers a real event that happend in Germany in the middle of the eighties.

Written by

Helmut Dietl, Ulrich Limmer, Peter Märthesheimer

Directed by

Helmut Dietl

Cast

Götz George, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Christiane Hörbiger

Crew

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Production Countries

Germany

Production Companies

ARD

Languages

Deutsch

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 4 nominations total

Trailers
Schtonk ! (1992) ORIGINAL DEUTSCH TRAILER [HD]
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