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Schtonk!	label	Schtonk!
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Schtonk!	comment	Schtonk! is a 1992 film from Germany directed by Helmut Dietl.It is a satirical, partially fictionalized take on the infamous Real Life Hitler Diaries scandal. The film opens with Fritz Knobel as a boy in post-war Berlin, passing off random trinkets (like an officer's hat) as Adolf Hitler's personal possessions, and selling them to gullible American soldiers. Fast-forward some thirty-odd years and Fritz (played by Uwe Ochsenknecht) bills himself as a professor and art historian, but he's actually a forger. He paints a nude of a lovely village lass named Martha (Veronica Ferres) and passes it off as a portrait of Eva Braun by Hitler. Fritz thinks he's screwed when the Nazi Nobleman he sells the painting to calls in an art expert, but when the art expert proclaims it genuine, Fritz learns a lesson on how experts can be fooled. In the meantime, Fritz is carrying on an affair with curvaceous Martha, much to the fury of his wife Biggi (Dagmar Manzel).Enter journalist Hermann Willié (Götz George), a crackpot, Nazi aficionado, and all-around creep, the sort of guy who would raise Hermann Goering's yacht from the bottom of a harbor and restore it. (If that isn't creepy enough, Willié is also dating Hermann Goering's niece.) When Fritz goes to a meeting of rich Nazi weirdos and offers up a fake Adolf Hitler diary for sale, Willié is hooked. Soon Fritz finds himself frantically cranking out volume after volume of crudely faked diaries, while trying to manage his complicated love life. Willié for his part shows the diaries to his magazine, which seizes on them a find of enormous historical importance.
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Schtonk! / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Schtonk! / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The Nazi presenting Hitler's first diary entry misreads "Gott sei Dank" (Thank God) as "Kotze Schtonk".
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Schtonk! / int_19384952	type	Master Forger
Schtonk! / int_19384952	comment	Master Forger: Ironically, averted. Fritz doesn't even bother to disguise Martha's face on the Eva Braun portrait, which draws a suspicious glance from the guy who bought it when Martha works for him as a maid. He makes his diaries look old by spilling tea on them. He fools a handwriting expert by offering up different forged documents to compare to the diaries. He even blunders with the covers of his diaries. He attempts to put "AH" on the front of each, buying letters in the old Gothic script. Unfortunately he confuses a Gothic A for a Gothic F, leading the editors of the magazine to wonder why the diaries are lableled "FH". (They decide it means "Fuhrer Hitler" or "Fuhrer headquarters".)
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Schtonk! / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
Schtonk! / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: Parodied. When the Dr. Wieland introduces himself to Freya, Field Marshal Goering's niece, she reminds him that she doesn't feel ashamed of her uncle. Dr. Wieland sheepishly draws a comparison to his uncle, who was active in La Résistance. She concludes that neither of them need to beat themselves up over the sins of their families.
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Schtonk! / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Schtonk! / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Rather than refer by name to Stern, the once-proud magazine that was disgraced after publishing the diaries, in the movie Willié works for HH Press.
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Schtonk! / int_3dfdc686	type	Time-Passes Montage
Schtonk! / int_3dfdc686	comment	Time Passes Montage: A montage near the end shows an increasingly frantic Fritz writing diaries, while Willié continues to sell them to his editors, and newspapers and magazines around the world report on them.
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Schtonk! / int_46754750	type	Inadvertent Entrance Cue
Schtonk! / int_46754750	comment	Inadvertent Entrance Cue: Fritz, trying to defend himself from an angry Biggi after she confronts him about his affair, says "Temptation comes in all shapes and sizes." Cue Willié at the door with a Briefcase Full of Money, looking for more Hitler diaries.
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Schtonk! / int_47b152f9	type	Sexy Soaked Shirt
Schtonk! / int_47b152f9	comment	Sexy Soaked Shirt: Martha comes back to the studio after modeling for Fritz. It's raining and her white shirt has soaked through to show everything. She and Fritz commence an affair.
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Schtonk! / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Schtonk! / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: The film begins with stock footage of bombing and street fighting in 1945 Berlin, before segueing to the story.
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Schtonk! / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Schtonk! / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: "Many years in Swabia" leads us to Fritz, forging Hitler paintings for gullible old Nazis, and squabbling with his wife.
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Schtonk! / int_66c2ca76	type	Nazi Grandpa
Schtonk! / int_66c2ca76	comment	Nazi Grandpa: Old-time Nazi irredentists are featured throughout the film, many as young as Willié (who was a Hitler Youth). Most of them are so far up their own backsides in their cultish reverence of Hitler that they're completely blinded to the obvious fakery of Knobel's forgeries.
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Schtonk! / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
Schtonk! / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: Martha, carrying a waitress's tray, drops it when Biggi shows up at the restaurant to confront her.
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Schtonk! / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Schtonk! / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Michael Seufert, a later editor of Stern Magazine (parodied as HHpress in the film), once asked director Helmut Dietl why he had chosen to leave out some of the juiciest and most outlandish factoids of the Hitler Diaries Scandal. Dietl answered that it would have stretched the audience's suspension of disbelief way too much.
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Schtonk! / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Schtonk! / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Willié reacts to definite proof that the diaries were written after the war by deciding...that Hitler must have survived the war and is still alive somewhere. He is sailing Goering's yacht to South America to look for the Fuhrer when he's arrested at the end of the movie.
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Schtonk! / int_a5de0ab9	type	Polyamory
Schtonk! / int_a5de0ab9	comment	Polyamory: Biggi and Martha have a frau-mit-frau chat and soon Fritz, his wife, and his mistress are living together in a threesome. It's implied that the gobs of money Fritz is bringing home from selling the Hitler diaries is the reason for this.
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Schtonk! / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Schtonk! / int_a8559a9f	comment	Gerd Heidemann, the Real Life basis for Heinrich Willié, really did buy Hermann Goering's yacht and have it restored, although it had never been sunk and thus didn't need to be salvaged. And he didn't date Goering's niece, he dated Goering's daughter, Edda.
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Schtonk! / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
Schtonk! / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: Time frames are compressed, details are simplified or omitted, and all the names are changed, but in many respects it's a surprisingly faithful if tongue-in-cheek history of the Hitler Diaries hoax. Gerd Heidemann, the Real Life basis for Heinrich Willié, really did buy Hermann Goering's yacht and have it restored, although it had never been sunk and thus didn't need to be salvaged. And he didn't date Goering's niece, he dated Goering's daughter, Edda. Konrad Kujau was a slightly scummier version of Fritz Knobel; Kujau was also into counterfeiting and spent some time in prison, and he was obsessed with guns. However Kujau did have a wife and a mistress, and apparently they did come to an understanding, as they all fled to Austria together. The film implies a Happy Ending for Fritz in which he escapes to Austria with his money and both of his women, after they prevail on him to get out while he still can. While this happened in Real Life, soon afterwards Konrad Kujau returned to Germany and turned himself in. He served three years in prison.
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Schtonk! / int_bbb94287	type	Coincidental Accidental Disguise
Schtonk! / int_bbb94287	comment	Coincidental Accidental Disguise: Fritz is sitting at his work while wearing an old Wehrmacht coat. He has a fever, and his sweaty hair sticks to his forehead. Then he spills some ink, cleans it up with his handkerchief, sneezes, cleans his nose and unwillingly leaves a spot looking like a Hitler moustache. And then, Willié comes in and tells him that people want proof that the diaries were written by no one but Hitler himself. Cue Fritz looking into a mirror.
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Schtonk! / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Schtonk! / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: The newspaper Willié works for is called HHPress. On the surface, HH would refer to the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, but is also an abbreviation for "Heil Hitler".
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Schtonk! / int_c74c35f4	type	Monochrome Past
Schtonk! / int_c74c35f4	comment	Monochrome Past: The opening scene with the burning of Hitler's and Eva Braun's corpses is in black and white, as well as the scene of young Fritz selling a fake Hitler hat to a dumb GI, as well as the next scene where he meets Biggi while they're in their teens. When the film cuts to the present it also switches to color.
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Schtonk! / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Schtonk! / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "Schtonk" is not actually a German word; it's the faux-German word that Charlie Chaplin uses to express displeasure when in character as Adenoid Hynkel in The Great Dictator. Many shots are tongue-in-cheek recreations of National Socialist propaganda art.
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Schtonk! / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Schtonk! / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Both Biggi (Knobel's girlfriend) and Freya (Willié's girlfriend) tell Willié that the diaries are fake. He doesn't listen.
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Schtonk! / int_d013cd12	type	Lovable Rogue
Schtonk! / int_d013cd12	comment	Lovable Rogue: Fritz. He's a forger, but the only people he's hurting are Hitler-loving creeps like Willié.
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Schtonk! / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Schtonk! / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Willié when he reads the first entry. The (remember, fake) entry is about "Hitler" writing how he suffers from too much gas, and Eva Braun saying he has halitosis. Willié acts like it's holy writ.
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Schtonk! / int_e55c5f35	type	Happily Ever Before
Schtonk! / int_e55c5f35	comment	Happily Ever Before: While Fritz in the movie gets a happy ending in which he escapes to Austria with his money and his two babes, Konrad Kujau went back to West Germany, and went to jail.
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Schtonk! / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Schtonk! / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Willié is a sleazy, corrupt, narcissistic, abusive, ungrateful and utterly idiotic Nazi sympathiser who repulses most other characters in the film.
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Schtonk! / int_e7ae07f5	type	Briefcase Full of Money
Schtonk! / int_e7ae07f5	comment	Briefcase Full of Money: Willié brings one to Fritz at one point, when he's looking to buy more diaries.
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Schtonk! / int_f23c26ab	type	Food Slap
Schtonk! / int_f23c26ab	comment	Food Slap: Freya (Hermann Goering's niece) throws orange marmalade in Willié's face when he's inexcusably rude to her about her appearance at breakfast.
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Schtonk! / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Schtonk! / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: The Food Slap from Freya to Willié is followed by him chasing after screaming "You bitch!" In the next scene, where she dumps him, she has a black eye.
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Schtonk! / int_fec2b522	type	Happy Ending
Schtonk! / int_fec2b522	comment	The film implies a Happy Ending for Fritz in which he escapes to Austria with his money and both of his women, after they prevail on him to get out while he still can. While this happened in Real Life, soon afterwards Konrad Kujau returned to Germany and turned himself in. He served three years in prison.
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