Herbert in plasterIn the films of Herbert Achternbusch the plot is more of a space in which the Bavarian filmmaker, poet and painter improvises. For example as artist and soldier Herbert in Heilt Hitler!, which premiered 25 years ago at the Berlinale. At night Herbert sits with his last comrade in the trenches of Stali…

This movie is located at the "Oktoberfest" (bigbig, legendary and well-known drinking fest for dumb white-bread idiots) in Munich/Germany. 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". …

Adi has a dream: While sitting at his regular table and sucessfully chatting up Gabi the waitress, a boy appears. "You have to beget me", says the child to the man. The little boy has also already selected a mother: Ilona, an athlete with the sporting club TSC 1860 Munich. She, too, have her dreams, and they …

A film of deep sadness and despair, and the director’s first film in black and white, The Last Hole is the mordant tale of a man haunted by the historic guilt of Germany who desperately tries to find redemption. Achternbusch portrays “der …

In the Eyptian collection in Munich, Hick is cleaning the statue of Osiris with soap and hand towels; he dries the figure's head with a hair-dryer and puts cream on it. Hick wants a favour from the deity-a rendezous with the Egyptian queen Hatshepsut. A mummy climbs out of its sarcophays, starts to move by itself and, …