Herbert Achternbusch Movies

Dentist Adi has an extraordinary dream: a boy appears to him and asks to become his father. The unknown boy has chosen the most beautiful woman in...

Two men try and fail to unhinge a stone.

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

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

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...

After several years in a coma, the Comanche, an Indian, wakes up in a Bavarian hospital. But reality does not match the dreams he had of it during...

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

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

Hick's Last Stand.

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 comic silent film about the Holocaust.

Bavaria has become an arctic, hostile environment; at the site of the former state capital, a huge geyser is now gushing through the ice sheet....

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

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch