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
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