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Cast
Götz George | As: Hermann Willié | |
Uwe Ochsenknecht | As: Fritz Knobel | |
Christiane Hörbiger | As: Freya von Hepp | |
Harald Juhnke | As: Pit Kummer | |
Ulrich Mühe | As: Dr. Wieland |
Storyline
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.
Tagline: | One of the first funny german look at its past. |
Certification: | U |
Cast
Götz George |
Hermann Willié |
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Uwe Ochsenknecht |
Fritz Knobel |
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Christiane Hörbiger |
Freya von Hepp |
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Harald Juhnke |
Pit Kummer |
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Ulrich Mühe |
Dr. Wieland |
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Rolf Hoppe |
Karl Lentz |
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Dagmar Manzel |
Biggi |
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Veronica Ferres |
Martha |
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Hermann Lause |
Kurt Glück |
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Martin Benrath |
Uwe Esser |
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Georg Marischka |
Von Klantz |
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Karl Schönböck |
August Strasser |
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Rosemarie Fendel |
Karl Lentz's Wife |
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Wolfgang Menge |
German Graphologist |
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Hark Bohm |
Priest |
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Willy Harlander |
Bavarian Border Official |
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Thomas Holtzmann |
Cornelius |
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Hans-Joachim Hegewald |
Schuback |
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Peter Roggisch |
Obersturmbandführer |
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Günter Junghans |
East German Police Officer |
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Armin Rohde |
SS Man |
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Michael Kessler |
SS Man |
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Martin Feifel |
SS Man |
Directed By
Helmut Dietl |
Director |
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Writing Credits
Ulrich Limmer |
Screenplay |
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Helmut Dietl |
Screenplay |
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Production Crew
Günter Rohrbach |
Producer |
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Helmut Dietl |
Producer |
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Edited By
Tanja Schmidbauer |
Editor |
Costume and Makeup
Sound
Konstantin Wecker |
Original Music Composer |
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Visual Effects
Camera
Xaver Schwarzenberger |
Director of Photography |
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Lighting
Art Department
Other Crew
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