Herbert Achternbusch Movies

Mix Wix tells the story of the owner of the Mix Wix department store, who has successfully done business with underwear and socks and even has the...

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

Two men try and fail to unhinge a stone.

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...

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch

An anarchist surrealist film.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

Hick's Last Stand.

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....

Short film by Herbert Achternbusch