Herbert Achternbusch Movies

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...

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

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

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

Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.

A comic silent film about the Holocaust.

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

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...

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...

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...

Two men try and fail to unhinge a stone.

Jesus returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up an affair with a nun, arguing that they are...

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

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...

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

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