Herbert Achternbusch Movies

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

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

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...

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

An anarchist surrealist film.

Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

A comic silent film about the Holocaust.

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 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...

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

Two men try and fail to unhinge a stone.

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

Hick's Last Stand.

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...