Herbert Achternbusch

Two men try and fail to unhinge a stone.

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 ...

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

This German political drama from iconoclastic filmmaker Herbert Achternbusch takes a slightly askew look at neo-Nazis and the Holocaust. His ...

An anarchist surrealist film.

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 ...

Hick’s Last Stand.

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 ...

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

Several comedy situations are strung together for this offbeat satire. An unassuming businesswoman is discovered to be the mastermind behind a ...

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

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

The foehn researcher paints watercolors in which he documents the state of the world and records his visions of what is happening, while he ...

A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks ...

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 ...

Jesus 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 ...

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

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

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 ...