Herbert Achternbusch Filmes

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

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...

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

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

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

A renowned and sensitive poet and writer is fed up with the crudenesses of his native Bavaria and, in a well-publicized move, says he refuses even to...

Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.

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

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...

Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

Herbert Achternbusch's poetic travel diary assembles images and monologues from a trip to China.

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

Hick's Last Stand.