The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with o...
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Writer, actor, and German filmmaker born in Munich in 1938. He spent his childhood and youth in Bavaria, region which remains until today its major source of artistic inspiration. Their activity is very diverse: he has composed pieces for theater and radio scripts, translator, painter and sculptor. As different as his artistic activities is his work, and therefore difficult to classify. In the world of cinema, his career fits approaches independent, mostly defined by a position too personalistic, provocative, that has left a deep imprint on works eminently conceptual and avant-garde, as well as suggesting in criticism of the subjects addressed (religion, society, geographical framework in which wandering people, etc.). His films just transcend the commercial sector; It is one of the most followed by seekers of original, stories of passes in areas interested in film culture. His anarchist surrealistic films are not known to a wide audience in Germany, although one of them, Das Gespenst (The Ghost), caused a scandal in 1983 because of its alleged blasphemous content. Werner Herzog, a director of the New German Cinema, based his film Heart of Glass on a story by Achternbusch.
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The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with o...
This documentary takes an entertaining and informative look at the German Heimatfilm phenomenon. The first part...
A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only w...
Comedy shot without a script on Super-8mm as a silent film, with intertitles later inserted between scenes. Wha...
After several years in a coma, the Comanche, an Indian, wakes up in a Bavarian hospital. But reality does not m...
A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform...
Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.
Stalingrad, 1942: just as he is complaining about the "blockheads" who are in control, a German named Herbert g...
An adaptation of the Henry James short story Les raisons de Georgina.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl is to blame in Germany and has to go away without violence. The homeless Hick takes up t...
After Hick returns from America, he finds himself in no man's land: his station in Last Valley has been closed...
This German political drama from iconoclastic filmmaker Herbert Achternbusch takes a slightly askew look at neo...
The story of the owner of the Mix Wix department store, who has successfully done business with underwear and s...
A portrait of Attwenger, the duo from Upper Austria (Markus Binder and Hans-Peter Falkner). The attempt to unit...
In this surrealist film director Picasso can awaken from the dead. He steals a paintings painted by himself of...
The foehn researcher paints watercolors in which he documents the state of the world and records his visions of...
Dr. Riesenhuber, the State Secretary of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture, can think of nothing else but advanci...
Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.
A renowned and sensitive poet and writer is fed up with the crudenesses of his native Bavaria and, in a well-pu...
Two men try and fail to unhinge a stone.
Director Andi Niessner was production manager on Achternbusch's last two major feature films in 1996 and 1998....
Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.
Several comedy situations are strung together for this offbeat satire. An unassuming businesswoman is discovere...
An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the...
A filmmaker (Achternbusch) is just released from prison and has to make a living with his craft again. He is fo...
Bavaria has become an arctic, hostile environment; at the site of the former state capital, a huge geyser is no...
Dentist Adi has an extraordinary dream: a boy appears to him and asks to become his father. The unknown boy has...
An anarchist surrealist film.
Jesus returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up an affair w...
A comic silent film about the Holocaust. A man, haunted by the historic guilt of Germany, desperately tries to...
Short film by Herbert Achternbusch
Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of all time poll.
After his failed first attempt in the film "Atlantic Swimmer", Hick has managed to travel to the United States....
Herbert Achternbusch's poetic travel diary assembles images and monologues from a trip to China.