Herbert Achternbusch Movies

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

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...

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...

An anarchist surrealist film.

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...

A comic silent film about the Holocaust.

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

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

Hick's Last Stand.

Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of all time poll.

Two men try and fail to unhinge a stone.

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

Short film by 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...