Schtonk! 32 years old
One of the first funny german look at its past.
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.
Credits
Schtonk! Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Armin Rohde He was 36, now 69 years old | as SS Man |
| Veronica Ferres She was 26, now 58 years old | as Martha |
| Ulrich Mühe He was 38, 54 years old when he died | as Dr. Wieland |
| Martin Feifel He was 27, now 59 years old | as SS Man |
| Martin Benrath He was 65, 73 years old when he died | as Uwe Esser, Chefredakteur |
| Götz George He was 53, 77 years old when he died | as Hermann Willié |
| Uwe Ochsenknecht He was 36, now 68 years old | as Prof. Dr. Fritz Knobel |
| Willy Harlander He was 60, 68 years old when he died | as bayerischer Grenzbeamter |
| Harald Juhnke He was 63, 76 years old when he died | as Pit Kummer |
| Rolf Hoppe He was 61, now 93 years old | as Karl Lentz |
| Dagmar Manzel She was 33, now 65 years old | as Biggi |
| Günter Junghans He was 50, 73 years old when he died | as East German Police Officer |
| Christiane Hörbiger She was 53, now 85 years old | as Freya von Hepp |
| Michael Kessler He was 24, now 56 years old | as SS Man |
| Georg Marischka He was 69, 77 years old when he died | as SS-Obergruppenführer von Klantz |
| Thomas Holtzmann He was 64, 85 years old when he died | as Cornelius |
| Wolfgang Menge He was 67, 88 years old when he died | as deutscher Graphologe in London |
| Karl Schönböck He was 84, 93 years old when he died | as Kunstprofessor und Alt- August Strasser |
| Hans-Joachim Hegewald He was 61, 80 years old when he died | as Schuback |
| Rosemarie Fendel She was 64, 85 years old when she died | as Frau des Fabrikanten Karl Lentz |
| Hermann Lause He was 53, 66 years old when he died | as Kurt Glück, Chefredakteur |
| Peter Roggisch He was 54, 63 years old when he died | as Obersturmbandführer |
| Hark Bohm He was 52, now 84 years old | as Priester |
Schtonk! Crew
| Name | Department |
|---|---|
| Tanja Schmidbauer as Editor. | Editing |
| Konstantin Wecker as Original Music Composer. He was 44 (now 76) years old | Sound |
| Helmut Dietl as Director. He was 47 (70) years old when He died | Directing |
| Helmut Dietl as Producer. He was 47 (70) years old when He died | Production |
| Helmut Dietl as Screenplay. He was 47 (70) years old when He died | Writing |
Schtonk! (32 years)
One of the first funny german look at its past.
- Release day: Thursday, March 12, 1992
- Runtime: 115 minutes
