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 : 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, 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 : 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 ...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.