Cast: Herbert Achternbusch

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Judit Achternbusch · Heinz Braun · Ella Fießinger

Plot 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...

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Doris Jung · Naomi Semiramis · Barbara Gass

Plot In this surrealist film director Picasso can awaken from the dead. He steals a paintings painted by himself of a couple of wealthy psychiatrists. When Picasso meets Takla Bash, a...

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Heinz Braun · Herbert Achternbusch · Alois Hitzenbichler · Josef Bierbichler

Plot Two world-worn men from Munich, the mailman Heinz and the lifeguard Herbert, look for an escape from their day-to-day lives and participate in a swimming contest across the Atlantic Ocean...

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Judit Achternbusch · Franz Baumgartner · Annamirl Bierbichler

Plot This satirical story of a minister president is reportedly based on the conservative Bavarian minister Franz Josef Strauss.

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Annamirl Bierbichler · Franz Baumgartner · Gabi Geist

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Judith Tobschall · Annamirl Bierbichler · Herbert Achternbusch · Josefa Janisch

Plot Hick, an unemployed chimney sweep from Munich, has an illegitimate child, Su, with the grumpy convent sister. Su adores her father and dreams of a life together in Tibet. After...

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Annamirl Bierbichler · Esther Donatz · Gabi Geist

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Annamirl Bierbichler · Herbert Achternbusch · Josef Bierbichler · Heinz Braun

Plot A renowned and sensitive poet and writer is fed up with the crudeness of his native Bavaria and, in a well-publicized move, says he refuses even to die there.

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Gunter Freyse · Herbert Achternbusch · Gabi Geist · Waltraut Galler

Plot Stalingrad, 1942: just as he is complaining about the “blockheads” who are in control, a German named Herbert gets hit. Fast forward forty years after the war to Munich’s Hofgarten,...

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Annamirl Bierbichler · Heinz Braun · Josef Bierbichler

Plot 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.

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Judit Achternbusch · Rita Achternbusch · Franz Baumgartner

Plot 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, his mother...

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Uli Bauer · Franz Baumgartner · Josef Bierbichler

Plot 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.

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Annamirl Bierbichler · Helga Loder · Alois Hitzenbichler

Plot Herbert Achternbusch wrote, directed, and starred in this comedy that pokes fun at the German way of subsidizing the art of creating movies and documentaries. He is a filmmaker playing...

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Heinz Braun · Branko Samarovski · Karolina Herbig

Direction Andi Niessner

Cast Herbert Achternbusch

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Franz Baumgartner · Annamirl Bierbichler · Josef Bierbichler

Plot 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 to...

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Annamirl Bierbichler · Franz Baumgartner · Gabi Geist

Plot "The Last Hole" is the mordant tale of a man haunted by the historic guilt of Germany who desperately tries to find redemption.

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Bernd Bayerl · Uschi Burkhart · Barbara de Koy

Plot 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...

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Annamirl Bierbichler · Werner Schroeter · Kurt Raab

Plot The premise is that Jesus Christ has returned as a fairly palpable ghost behaving in a slightly less than saintly manner, and no one knows how to react to him....