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Schtonk!

One of the first funny german look at its past.

6.9(95)19921h 55m2

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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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
German
  • nazi
  • diary
  • portrait painting
  • fake
  • adolf hitler

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Behind the camera

Director

Helmut Dietl

Produced in

Germany

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Release dates

  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical (limited)Paris6 Apr 1993
    • Theatrical28 Apr 1993
    • TVARTE18 Jan 1998
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical612 Mar 1992

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Schtonk! was released on 12 March 1992.

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