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...

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

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

Two men try and fail to unhinge a stone.

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....

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

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

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

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,...

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...

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...

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

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

An anarchist surrealist film.

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.