Barely. Less violent than 76% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Not especially. Less sad than 67% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Somewhat. More frightening than 61% of well-known films. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Is Schtonk! easy watching?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Does Schtonk! end with hope?

About average. Almost exactly mid-range for a well-known film. This describes how the film comes across as a whole, measured against other well-known films; it is not a content list.

Schtonk!

Name: Schtonk!
Genre: Comedy, History
Released: 1992
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Götz George, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Christiane Hörbiger, Harald Juhnke, Ulrich Mühe

One of the first funny german look at its past.

Directed by Helmut Dietl

Produced by Bavaria Film, WDR

1992115 min6.9 / 10

A high-energy satirical farce that mines dark historical comedy from a real 1983 hoax, using absurdist humor to examine Germany's fraught relationship with its Nazi 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.

Clusters

Comedies That Mock Society Comedic Heist Movies Brutal Social Satire Comedy That Turns Sharp Lies And Disguises

Genres

Comedy History

Keywords

Nazi Diary Portrait Painting Fake Adolf Hitler

Questions people ask

Is Schtonk! violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.
Is Schtonk! sad? Not especially. Less sad than 67% of films.
Is Schtonk! scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 61% of films.
Is Schtonk! easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
Does Schtonk! end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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