Herbert Achternbusch Movies

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the...

The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy...

This German political drama from iconoclastic filmmaker Herbert Achternbusch takes a slightly askew look at neo-Nazis and the Holocaust. His...

A comic silent film about the Holocaust.

After Hick returns from America, he finds himself in no man's land: his station in Last Valley has been closed and Hick, the now unemployed...

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...

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...

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

Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.

Jesus (played by the director) returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up an affair with a nun,...

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

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...

A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform of a policeman and then enters the...

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

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