Herbert Achternbusch Movies

Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of all time poll.

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

A portrait of Attwenger, the duo from Upper Austria (Markus Binder and Hans-Peter Falkner). The attempt to unite the worlds of Austrian folk music and...

Stalingrad, 1942: just as he is complaining about the "blockheads" who are in control, a German named Herbert gets hit. Fast forward forty years after...

A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform of a policeman and then enters the Okto...

Jesus (played by the director) returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up an affair with a nun, arg...

An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While f...

Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.

A filmmaker (Achternbusch) is just released from prison and has to make a living with his craft again. He is followed by a reporter who wants an int...

Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.

The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.),who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy hi...

Comedy shot without a script on Super-8mm as a silent film, with intertitles later inserted between scenes. What unfolds is a familiar Achternbusch ta...

Dr. Riesenhuber, the State Secretary of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, can think of nothing else but advancing his career and becoming a minister,...

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

The foehn researcher paints watercolors in which he documents the state of the world and records his visions of what is happening, while he berates th...

A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of...