Herbert Achternbusch Movies

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...

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the...

This German political drama from iconoclastic filmmaker Herbert Achternbusch takes a slightly askew look at neo-Nazis and the Holocaust. His...

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...

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...

Jesus returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up an affair with a nun, arguing that they are...

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

After Hick returns from America, he finds himself in no man's land: his station in Last Valley has been closed and Hick, the now unemployed...

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Several comedy situations are strung together for this offbeat satire. An unassuming businesswoman is discovered to be the mastermind behind a...

Two men try and fail to unhinge a stone.

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

In this surrealist film director Picasso can awaken from the dead. He steals a paintings painted by himself of a couple of wealthy psychiatrists....

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...

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

Mix Wix tells the story of the owner of the Mix Wix department store, who has successfully done business with underwear and socks and even has the...

Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.

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...

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...