Overview
Plot
Schtonk! is a farce based on the 1983 scandal when Stern magazine published 60 volumes of alleged Hitler diaries, exposed as fake two weeks later. Forger Fritz Knobel sells a fake diary, but journalist Hermann Willié sees its potential, pulling Knobel into a deepening hoax.
- Directors
- Helmut Dietl
- Cast
- Götz George, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Christiane Hörbiger, Harald Juhnke, Ulrich Mühe, Rolf Hoppe, Dagmar Manzel, Veronica Ferres, Hermann Lause, Martin Benrath, Georg Marischka, Karl Schönböck, Rosemarie Fendel, Wolfgang Menge, Hark Bohm, Willy Harlander, Thomas Holtzmann, Hans-Joachim Hegewald, Peter Roggisch, Günter Junghans
- Country
- Germany
- Genre
- Comedy, History
- Release date
- 1992-03-12
- Studios
- Bavaria Film, WDR
Plot
Warning: spoilers
Schtonk! Plot and Cast
In this satire of the 1983 Hitler diaries hoax, Fritz Knobel, a forger of Nazi memorabilia, writes and sells a volume of Hitler's nonexistent diaries as just another job. Sleazy journalist Hermann Willié recognizes their value, and Knobel is soon over his head, forced to produce more volumes while increasingly acting like the man whose life he is rewriting. The film lampoons the hoax and Germany's discomfort with its past.
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