Schtonk!

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Götz George

Hermann Willié

Age : 77 | Popularity : 4%

Uwe Ochsenknecht

Fritz Knobel

Age : 68 | Popularity : 7%

Christiane Hörbiger

Freya von Hepp

Age : 85 | Popularity : 6%

Harald Juhnke

Pit Kummer

Age : 75 | Popularity : 5%

Ulrich Mühe

Dr. Wieland

Age : 54 | Popularity : 10%

Rolf Hoppe

Karl Lentz

Age : 87 | Popularity : 9%

Dagmar Manzel

Biggi

Age : 65 | Popularity : 3%

Veronica Ferres

Martha

Age : 58 | Popularity : 16%

Crew

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

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