Schtonk!
Schtonk!
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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Harald Juhnke
as Pit Kummer
Ulrich Mühe
as Dr. Wieland
Hermann Lause
as Kurt Glück
Georg Marischka
as Von Klantz
Karl Schönböck
as August Strasser
Armin Rohde
as SS Man
Martin Feifel
as SS Man
Veronica Ferres
as Martha
Martin Benrath
as Uwe Esser
Rosemarie Fendel
as Karl Lentz's Wife
Wolfgang Menge
as German Graphologist
Willy Harlander
as Bavarian Border Official
Günter Junghans
as East German Police Officer
Michael Kessler
as SS Man
Götz George
as Hermann Willié
Uwe Ochsenknecht
as Fritz Knobel
Rolf Hoppe
as Karl Lentz
Hark Bohm
as Priest
Christiane Hörbiger
as Freya von Hepp
Dagmar Manzel
as Biggi
Thomas Holtzmann
as Cornelius
