Herbert Achternbusch Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Herbert Achternbusch Trailers
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25 October 1991
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.
01 January 2004
Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.
01 April 1995
This German political drama from iconoclastic filmmaker Herbert Achternbusch takes a slightly askew look at neo-Nazis and the Holocaust.
25 February 1984
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.
01 November 1974
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, 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 feeds him.
02 August 1985
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.
01 January 1981
A filmmaker (Achternbusch) is just released from prison and has to make a living with his craft again.
30 October 1982
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 married anyway.
01 January 1997
In this surrealist film director Picasso can awaken from the dead. He steals a paintings painted by himself of a couple of wealthy psychiatrists.
01 January 1989
Comedy shot without a script on Super-8mm as a silent film, with intertitles later inserted between scenes.
01 October 1971
Short film by Herbert Achternbusch
09 April 1987
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.
01 January 1972
Short film by Herbert Achternbusch
01 January 1995
A portrait of Attwenger, the duo from Upper Austria (Markus Binder and Hans-Peter Falkner). The attempt to unite the worlds of Austrian folk music and hip-hop has already succeeded in the music of Attwenger.
12 November 1976
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 obssessed with the lost secret.
17 February 1978
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 die there.
18 April 1975
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.
12 April 1985
Herbert Achternbusch's poetic travel diary assembles images and monologues from a trip to China.
13 March 2008
Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.
27 February 1976
Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.
24 October 2002
Two men try and fail to unhinge a stone.
13 February 1998
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.
01 January 1977
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.
30 October 1982
Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of all time poll.
28 October 1979
After several years in a coma, the Comanche, an Indian, wakes up in a Bavarian hospital. But reality does not match the dreams he had of it during his coma: it seems bleak and barren to him.
20 March 1986
Stalingrad, 1942: just as he is complaining about the "blockheads" who are in control, a German named Herbert gets hit.
05 May 1988
Several comedy situations are strung together for this offbeat satire. An unassuming businesswoman is discovered to be the mastermind behind a terrorist organization, and a disgruntled waitress has looks that can kill, literally and not figuratively speaking.
13 July 1989
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.
08 October 1974
An adaptation of the Henry James short story Les raisons de Georgina.
19 October 1983
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 Munich - sportswoman Ilona - as his mother.
20 October 1978
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.
15 October 1981
A comic silent film about the Holocaust. A man, haunted by the historic guilt of Germany, desperately tries to find redemption.
22 November 2008
Director Andi Niessner was production manager on Achternbusch's last two major feature films in 1996 and 1998.
16 February 1994
An anarchist surrealist film.
15 June 1984
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, while the politician needs the fool as the voice of the people.
02 August 1990
After his failed first attempt in the film "Atlantic Swimmer", Hick has managed to travel to the United States.
