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Herbert Achternbusch

Herbert Achternbusch

Birthday: 1938-11-23 | Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2008
Heimat - Deine Filme

as    Self

2008
Bierbichler

as    Self

1997
Picasso in Munich

as    Picasso

1994
Ab nach Tibet!

as    Hick

1989
1989
Mixwix

as    Mixwix

1988
Wohin?

as    Herbert

1985
Die Föhnforscher

as    Herbert

1985
Blaue Blumen

as    Narrator (voice)

1984
Rita Ritter

as    Passenger

1983
Die Olympiasiegerin

as    Adi

1982
The Ghost

as    Ober

1981
Der Neger Erwin

as    Der Neger Erwin

1981
The Last Hole

as    Der Nil

1979
Der Komantsche

as    Komantsche Koyotendreck

1978
Bye-Bye Bavaria!

as    Dichter und Wilddieb

1977
Beer Chase

as    Herbert, Polizist

1976
The Atlantic Swimmers

as    Herbert

1974
Stayover in Tirol

as    Lehrer

1974
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

as    country boy #1