05 Sep 2005
Everything Is Illuminated
A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
Schtonk!
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.
Top Billed Cast
Götz George Hermann Willié
Uwe Ochsenknecht Fritz Knobel
Christiane Hörbiger Freya von Hepp
Harald Juhnke Pit Kummer
Ulrich Mühe Dr. Wieland
Rolf Hoppe Karl Lentz
Dagmar Manzel Biggi
Veronica Ferres Martha
Hermann Lause Kurt Glück
Martin Benrath Uwe Esser
Georg Marischka Von Klantz
Karl Schönböck August Strasser
Rosemarie Fendel Karl Lentz's Wife
Hark Bohm Priest
Willy Harlander Bavarian Border Official
Thomas Holtzmann Cornelius
Hans-Joachim Hegewald Schuback
Peter Roggisch Obersturmbandführer
Günter Junghans East German Police Officer
Armin Rohde SS Man
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