Herbert Achternbusch Movies

An anarchist surrealist film.

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...

Dr. Riesenhuber, the State Secretary of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, can think of nothing else but advancing his career and becoming a minister,...

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...

Short film by 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...

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...

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

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

After several years in a coma, the Comanche, an Indian, wakes up in a Bavarian hospital. But reality does not match the dreams he had of it during...

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

Hick's Last Stand.

Bavaria has become an arctic, hostile environment; at the site of the former state capital, a huge geyser is now gushing through the ice sheet....

A comic silent film about the Holocaust.

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch