Herbert Achternbusch Movies

An anarchist surrealist film.

Several comedy situations are strung together for this offbeat satire. An unassuming businesswoman is discovered to be the mastermind behind a...

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Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

An adaptation of the Henry James short story Les raisons de Georgina.

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.

Mix Wix tells the story of the owner of the Mix Wix department store, who has successfully done business with underwear and socks and even has the...

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...

A portrait of Attwenger, the duo from Upper Austria (Markus Binder and Hans-Peter Falkner). The attempt to unite the worlds of Austrian folk music...

Two men try and fail to unhinge a stone.

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...

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...

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

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

Hick's Last Stand.