Best movies of Herbert Achternbusch

Actors : Kurt Raab, Werner Schroeter, Annamirl Bierbichler, Herbert Achternbusch,
Directors : Herbert Achternbusch,

The life-size figure of Christ at 42 travels with the cross on a mission through Bavaria.

Actors : Franz Baumgartner, Herbert Achternbusch, Judit Achternbusch, Rita Achternbusch,
Directors : Herbert Achternbusch,

For all its madcap eccentricities, The Olympic-Winning Lady lays bares more autobiographical allusions than any other Achternbusch work. As in the film, his father was actually a dentist, ...

Actors : Gunter Freyse, Waltraut Galler, Gabi Geist, Herbert Achternbusch,
Directors : Herbert Achternbusch,

Stalingrad, 1942: just as he is complaining about the "blockheads" who are in control, a German named Herbert (Achternbusch) gets hit. Fast forward forty years after the war to Munich's ...

Actors : Jens Harzer, Barbara Gass, Eckhard Dilssner, Herbert Achternbusch,
Directors : Herbert Achternbusch,

About Neo-Nazis and the Holocaust. A non-story divided into three parts. The first introduces Hades, an eccentric half-Jewish coffin maker. The second depicts scenes from a Jewish ghetto. In the third, Hades is buried at sea.

Actors : Barbara Gass, Doris Jung, Herbert Achternbusch, Naomi Semiramis,
Directors : Herbert Achternbusch,

The painter Picasso awakes from the dead, steals one of his paintings from a psychiatrist's and his wife's kitchen and wanders through Munich, where he meets the psychiatrist's patient, ...

Actors : Ella Fießinger, Heinz Braun, Herbert Achternbusch, Judit Achternbusch,
Directors : Herbert Achternbusch,

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 flies drown in his mug of beer, he ...

Actors : Josef Bierbichler, Franz Baumgartner, Herbert Achternbusch, Uli Bauer,
Directors : Herbert Achternbusch,

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 of Kohl.

Actors : Josef Bierbichler, Heinz Braun, Annamirl Bierbichler, Herbert Achternbusch,
Directors : Herbert Achternbusch,

In a stolen police uniform the drinker Herbert creates unrest at the Oktoberfest in Munich. He is so drunk that he believes he is a real detective inspector.

Actors : Franz Baumgartner, Gabi Geist, Annamirl Bierbichler, Herbert Achternbusch,
Directors : Herbert Achternbusch,

Comedy shot without a script on Super-8mm as a silent film, with intertitles later inserted between scenes. What unfolds is a familiar Achternbusch tale in which the protagonist (here his ...

Actors : Helga Loder, Alois Hitzenbichler, Annamirl Bierbichler, Herbert Achternbusch,
Directors : Herbert Achternbusch,

A man is released from prison. He is planning to pick up his old craft, filmmaking. A reporter follows him to a tavern called Der Neger Erwin (The Negro Erwin).

Actors : Bernd Bayerl, Uschi Burkhart, Herbert Achternbusch, Barbara de Koy,
Directors : Herbert Achternbusch,

Comedy shot without a script on Super-8mm as a silent film, with intertitles later inserted between scenes. What unfolds is a familiar Achternbusch tale in which the protagonist (here his ...

Actors : Josef Bierbichler, Heinz Braun, Annamirl Bierbichler, Herbert Achternbusch,
Directors : Herbert Achternbusch,

Achternbusch's tragic comedy begins with the figure of the Comanche (Achternbusch) lying comatose in a large country sanatorium, where he is the last surviving patient. Refusing to wake up ...