Movies: Herbert Achternbusch
- 1974
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
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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 his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feed...
- 1976
Heart of Glass (1976)
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A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes...
- 1984
Rita Ritter (1984)
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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 his work. He then remembers his old Parisian lover Rita, calls himself Rita from then on and becomes...
- 1982
The Ghost (1982)
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Jesus (played by the director) 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 married anyway. Therefore, he refers to himself as "Ober" (waiter), obviously the...
- 1985
Die Föhnforscher (1985)
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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 the Minister of the Interior savagely. The film tells the imaginary story of the Bavarian Jammersee in...
- 1987
Punch Drunk (1987)
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Dr. Riesenhuber, the State Secretary of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, can think of nothing else but advancing his career and becoming a minister, despite the world being contaminated by nuclear radiation....
- 1985
Blaue Blumen (1985)
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Herbert Achternbusch's poetic travel diary assembles images and monologues from a trip to China....
- 1997
Picasso in Munich (1997)
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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 patient of the psychiatrists, Picasso falls in love. Although it is his...
- 1991
Niemandsland (1991)
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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 stationmaster, leaves his family to emigrate to no man's land. In his absence, he is put on trial in Last Vall...
- 1989
Mixwix (1989)
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Mix Wix tells the story of the owner of the Mix Wix department store, who has successfully done business with underwear and socks and even has the largest selection of underwear. Since Mix Wix cannot improve further in this segment, it would like to ...
- 1977
Beer Chase (1977)
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A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform of a policeman and then enters the Oktoberfest. Now he is somebody, he is important, he can help, people respect him, etc. His wife, other ...
- 1975
Das Andechser Gefühl (1975)
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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 drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he neg...
- 1981
Der Neger Erwin (1981)
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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 interview and winds up at an inn called "Zum Neger Erwin," run by a woman whom he convinces to be the l...
- 2004
Musen, Macht und Glamour - Die Welt der Maximilianstraße (2004)
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Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich....
- 1982
Der Depp (1982)
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Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of all time poll....
- 1974
Stayover in Tirol (1974)
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An adaptation of the Henry James short story Les raisons de Georgina....
- 2008
Bierbichler (2008)
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Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler....
- 2008
Achternbusch (2008)
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- 1986
Heilt Hitler! (1986)
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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, where in front of the patched-up ruins of the Army Museum Herbert re...
- 1998
Neue Freiheit - Keine Jobs Schönes München: Stillstand (1998)
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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....