Herbert Achternbusch Movies

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...

An anarchist surrealist film.

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...

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

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

A renowned and sensitive poet and writer is fed up with the crudenesses of his native Bavaria and, in a well-publicized move, says he refuses even to...

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

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

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

A comic silent film about the Holocaust.

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

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...

An adaptation of the Henry James short story Les raisons de Georgina.

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

Hick's Last Stand.