Herbert Achternbusch Movies

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

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

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...

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

A comic silent film about the Holocaust. A man, haunted by the historic guilt of Germany, desperately tries to find redemption.

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...

Chancellor Helmut Kohl is to blame in Germany and has to go away without violence. The homeless Hick takes up the idea and demonstrates the abolition...

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

An anarchist surrealist film.

Herbert Achternbusch's poetic travel diary assembles images and monologues from a trip to China.

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

Hick's Last Stand.

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

Director Andi Niessner was production manager on Achternbusch's last two major feature films in 1996 and 1998. In conversation, Niessner manages to...