Movies by Herbert Achternbusch
Musen, Macht und Glamour - Die Welt der Maximilianstraße
Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.
Punch Drunk
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.
Die Föhnforscher
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.
Der Komantsche
Blaue Blumen
Herbert Achternbusch's poetic travel diary assembles images and monologues from a trip to China.
Das Kind ist tot
Short film by Herbert Achternbusch
Rita Ritter
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.