Herbert Achternbusch
Director
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.
Filmography
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
as country boy #1 1974
Beer Chase
as Herbert, Polizist 1977
The Ghost
as Ober 1982
Heal Hitler!
1986
The Last Hole
as Der Nil 1981
Bye-Bye Bavaria!
as Dichter und Wilddieb 1978
Das Andechser Gefühl
as Teacher 1975
The Atlantic Swimmers
as Herbert 1976
I Know the Way to the Hofbrauhaus
as Hick 1989
Ab nach Tibet!
as Hick 1994
Der Depp
as Der Depp 1982
Musen, Macht und Glamour - Die Welt der Maximilianstraße
as Self 2004
Attwenger Film
as Self (voice) 1995
Achternbusch
as Self 2008
Das Schaf im Wolfspelz - Herbert Achternbusch
as Self 1990
Ich bin da, ich bin da
as Hick 1993
Der Komantsche
as Komantsche Koyotendreck 1979