Schtonk (1992)

Schtonk: Directed by Helmut Dietl. With Götz George, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Christiane Hörbiger, Rolf Hoppe. The slightly fictionalized story of an art forger, a journalist desperate for a big story, and the biggest press scandal in German history: the Hitler Diaries.

“Dietl´s movie is based on real events, in 1983 a forger called Konrad Kujau made millions of dollars by writing the bogus diaries of Adolf Hitler. Although the movie has a poor start it developes into au003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003epretty good comedy, The most amusing parts are the wordgames, and the performances of Uwe Oschenknecht as the slick antique salesman/forger and Götz Georg as equallyu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eslick journalist.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI real life the Stern magazine which bought the diaries had a proper lesson when they received a letter written (in Hitler´s handwriting!) by an anonymous German humorist:u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;I hereby confirm that my diaries are realu0026quot;u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSigned: A.Hitler”