Schtonk 1992

Sensity:	No
Imdb rate:	7.2
Imdb Votes:	3,282
Duration:	115 mins
Year:	1992
Language:	German
Genre:	Comedy
Country:	Germany
Director:	Helmut Dietl
Writers:	Helmut Dietl (screenplay), Ulrich Limmer (screenplay), Ulrich Limmer (story), Peter Märthesheimer (original story concept), Pea Fröhlich (original story concept), Helmut Dietl (original story concept)
Actors:	Götz George , Uwe Ochsenknecht , Christiane Hörbiger , Rolf Hoppe ,
Awards:	Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins & 3 nominations.

Description:

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.