Herbert Achternbusch Movies

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

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....

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

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...

Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.

A comic silent film about the Holocaust. A man, haunted by the historic guilt of Germany, desperately tries to find redemption.

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

An anarchist surrealist film.

Director Andi Niessner was production manager on Achternbusch's last two major feature films in 1996 and 1998. In conversation, Niessner manages to...

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...

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...

After his failed first attempt in the film "Atlantic Swimmer", Hick has managed to travel to the United States. He is making his way through a...

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

Two men try and fail to unhinge a stone.

The fates of a worker and a cynical prime minister are inextricably linked: one can only travel to his Japanese lover with the help of the other,...

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch