Herbert Achternbusch
Also Known As: Herbert Schild
Biography: 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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: November 23, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 10, 2022
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Der Depp
Overview: Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of all time poll.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-30
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Musen, Macht und Glamour - Die Welt der Maximilianstraße
Overview: Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Attwenger Film
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Achternbusch
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-11-22
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Das Schaf im Wolfspelz - Herbert Achternbusch
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Beer Chase
Overview: 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. Now he is somebody, he is important, he can help, people respect him, etc. His wife, other relatives and some friends start to follow him while he gets some new acquaintances.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Heilt Hitler!
Overview: Stalingrad, 1942: just as he is complaining about the "blockheads" who are in control, a German named Herbert gets hit. Fast forward forty years after the war to Munich's Hofgarten, where in front of the patched-up ruins of the Army Museum Herbert reappears, mistakenly believing he is still in Stalingrad, which the victorious Germans have destroyed and rebuilt in the image of Munich
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-03-20
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The Ghost
Overview: 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. Therefore, he refers to himself as "Ober" (waiter), obviously the male form of "Oberin" (Mother Superior). He occasionally transforms into a snake when being afraid and is finally carried up into the sky by the nun, who transforms into a bird of prey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-10-30
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Das Andechser Gefühl
Overview: 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 flies drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he neglected, the teaching duties he has shirked, and his doomed efforts at winning tenure from school officials. Only a dream from the past-the memory of a former liaison with a film star with whom he shared "the Andechs feeling, a feeling that we are not alone" - provides sustenance. Despite an unexpected series of events, longing in Achternbusch's world ultimately remains stronger than fulfilment and thirst better than beer.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-04-18
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Ich bin da, ich bin da
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Der Komantsche
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-10-28
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Der Neger Erwin
Overview: 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 interview and winds up at an inn called "Zum Neger Erwin," run by a woman whom he convinces to be the leading lady in his planned production. As the story continues, the filmmaker finds ample excuses to pan the financial powers that be and to paint the benighted and talented seekers after funds as slaves to the funding process.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Atlantic Swimmers
Overview: Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-02-27
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Bierbichler
Overview: Documentary about actor Josef Bierbichler.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-03-13
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Overview: The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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I Know the Way to the Hofbrauhaus
Overview: Comedy shot without a script on Super-8mm as a silent film, with intertitles later inserted between scenes. What unfolds is a familiar Achternbusch tale in which the protagonist (here his alter-ego, Hick) is driven by a mad longing and becomes irretrievably lost. Unable to meet the demands of the workaday world, Hick wanders alone through the city and, as in many of Achternbusch's films, enters an intermediate realm in which the dead interact with the living: he encounters and falls in love with a mummy, searches for an Egyptian queen, and stalks the inner regions of the hereafter, which lie in the middle of Munich.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Das Kind ist tot
Overview: Short film by Herbert Achternbusch
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-10-01
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Das Klatschen der einen Hand
Overview: Two men try and fail to unhinge a stone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-10-24
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Punch Drunk
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-04-09
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Rita Ritter
Overview: 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. He then remembers his old Parisian lover Rita, calls himself Rita from then on and becomes her wife. When a French director stages a play of his, he meets Rita again in Paris and the two women become a happy couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-02-25
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Die Föhnforscher
Overview: 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. The film tells the imaginary story of the Bavarian Jammersee in fragments. The nuclear missile “Herrsching 2” - the Bavarians have finally provided for their own defense - is to be stored in a depot at the Jammersee. However, this comes into conflict with the other plan to fill the Jammersee with the ashes of the six million murdered Jews.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-08-02
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Blaue Blumen
Overview: Herbert Achternbusch's poetic travel diary assembles images and monologues from a trip to China.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-04-12
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Niemandsland
Overview: 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. In his absence, he is put on trial in Last Valley, the charges and reasons for which become increasingly vague and remain unclear until the end. In this trial, his wife defends him by emphasizing her husband's virtue - but he has started an affair in no man's land.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-10-25
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The Last Hole
Overview: A comic silent film about the Holocaust.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-10-15
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Neue Freiheit - Keine Jobs Schönes München: Stillstand
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1998-02-13
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Picasso in Munich
Overview: In this surrealist film director Picasso can awaken from the dead. He steals a paintings painted by himself of a couple of wealthy psychiatrists. When Picasso meets Takla Bash, a patient of the psychiatrists, Picasso falls in love. Although it is his own daughter, he remembers an incredible love affair, in which a film with a blue cow plays a role. In the majority of the paintings shown in the film are works of Herbert Achternbusch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Hades
Overview: This German political drama from iconoclastic filmmaker Herbert Achternbusch takes a slightly askew look at neo-Nazis and the Holocaust. His non-story (a typical trait of Achternbusch films) is divided into three parts. The first introduces Hades, an eccentric half-Jewish coffin maker. Also introduced are the women in his life. The second part depicts different scenes from the city's Jewish ghetto. Included are disturbing film clips from Nazi propaganda footage that shows the naked corpses of starved Jews piled up in the streets with the insinuation that the heartless relatives of the dead would unceremoniously toss them out when they expired. In the third part, Hades is buried at sea. In between, neo-Nazis march unopposed in Munich, Hades battles skinheads, and Hades' shop is repeatedly vandalized. A scene where Hades is fascinated with death is also seen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-04-01
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Ab nach Tibet!
Overview: An anarchist surrealist film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-02-16
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Wohin?
Overview: 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. In another tacky passage, played as a reoccurring gag, an official is infected with the AIDS virus after suffering a bite from the businesswoman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-05-05
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Die Olympiasiegerin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-19
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Hick's Last Stand
Overview: Hick's Last Stand.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-08-02
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Stayover in Tirol
Overview: An adaptation of the Henry James short story Les raisons de Georgina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-10-08
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Der junge Mönch
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-10-20
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Mixwix
Overview: 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 largest selection of underwear. Since Mix Wix cannot improve further in this segment, it would like to expand its line to include tennis clothing. To do this, however, he needs additional commercial space, for which he must wait for the building permit. Mix Wix spends the time waiting on the rooftop of the bar, wondering if his current existence represents meaningful life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-07-13
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