Schtonk!

Schtonk! by Helmut Dietl

7.00

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

Götz George

Götz George as Hermann Willié

Uwe Ochsenknecht

Uwe Ochsenknecht as Fritz Knobel

Christiane Hörbiger

Christiane Hörbiger as Freya von Hepp

Harald Juhnke

Harald Juhnke as Pit Kummer

Ulrich Mühe

Ulrich Mühe as Dr. Wieland

Rolf Hoppe

Rolf Hoppe as Karl Lentz

Dagmar Manzel

Dagmar Manzel as Biggi

Veronica Ferres

Veronica Ferres as Martha

Hermann Lause

Hermann Lause as Kurt Glück

Martin Benrath

Martin Benrath as Uwe Esser

Georg Marischka

Georg Marischka as Von Klantz

Karl Schönböck

Karl Schönböck as August Strasser

Rosemarie Fendel

Rosemarie Fendel as Karl Lentz's Wife

Wolfgang Menge

Wolfgang Menge as German Graphologist

Hark Bohm

Hark Bohm as Priest

Willy Harlander

Willy Harlander as Bavarian Border Official

Thomas Holtzmann

Thomas Holtzmann as Cornelius

Hans-Joachim Hegewald

Hans-Joachim Hegewald as Schuback

Peter Roggisch

Peter Roggisch as Obersturmbandführer

Günter Junghans

Günter Junghans as East German Police Officer

Armin Rohde

Armin Rohde as SS Man

Michael Kessler

Michael Kessler as SS Man

Martin Feifel

Martin Feifel as SS Man

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