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Retrospective Herbert Achternbusch
June 20-28, 2008 at
Filmfest München
, Munich
FilmFest is honoring a Munich icon and iconoclast filmmaker, writer, painter and sculptor, Herbert Achternbusch, with a complete restrospective of his films. Achternbusch, who will be celebrating his 70th birthday this year, will be on hand at the festival to meet the press and the public. Festival director Andreas Ströhl: "Achternbusch's humor begins where other people's stops. If you can look at his films without any categorical expectations, it becomes obvious how simple, clear and light they are. A serene melancholy fills them, a certain willingness to suffer as well as relief in the face of desperation."
A Wanderer in No Man's Land
"Seven reasons not to make films anymore? No, I don't have seven reasons. It's more like one. Sitting around with the crew after a day of shooting and drinking beer was very nice. After a hard day's work we were like a mug that liked to be filled with beer. We didn't have to worry about the next day because it was in the shooting schedule. Witnessing the amourocities was fun. It did happen that people fell in love - and how! Either really passionately or really briefly or really painfully. The pain knew no bounds. If someone cried, it was really excruciating. And if someone laughed you were in mortal danger. What couldn't one offer the world - countless possibilities. You're not shooting it the way you described it yesterday. That was my secret. I didn't need any excuses. At any rate, we had a lot of fun. Let the audience starve and munch on popcorn. The wilted audience... Yes, no limits to wilting either. Yes, you can use the brown of the Nazis to the point--- Watched MONPTI by Käutner yesterday. 1957 with a very young Romy Schneider who at times looked like an old lady. I met her in 1973. We sat at the same table, she was to my right. She could even talk without lines from a script. She wanted to return to Germany and work. My heart started pounding. I wouldn't have any money, I said. So what, said she. That was the closest near miss of my career. I always wanted to play people who killed themselves - but I never wanted to be one."
Herbert Achternbusch, 14.5.2008Featured Works:
The Child Is Dead (Das Kind ist Tot, 1970); That Andechs Feeling (Das Andechser Gefühl, 1974); The Atlantic Swimmers (Die Atlantikschwimmer, 1975); Beer Battle (Bierkampf, 1976); Bye-bye Bavaria! (Servus Bayern, 1977); The Young Monk (Der Junge Mönch, 1978); The Comanche (Der Komantsche, 1979); Erwin, the Negro (Der Neger Erwin, 1980); The Last Hole (Das Letzte Loch, 1981); The Ghost (Das Gespenst, 1982); The Idiot (Der Depp, 1982); The Olympic-Winning lady (Die Olympiasiegerin, 1983); Blue Flowers (Blaue Blumen, 1984); Die Föhnforscher (1984); Rita Ritter (1984); Wanderkrebs (1984); Heal Hitler! (Heilt Hitler!, 1985); Punch Drunk (1986); Where To Go? (Wohin?, 1987); Mix Wix (1989); Hick's Last Stand (1990); I Know the Way to The Hofbrauhaus (1991); No Man's Land (Niemandsland, 1991); I Am There I Am There (Ich bin da Ich bin da, 1993); Let's Go to Tibet! (Ab nach Tibet!, 1993, pictured); Hades (1994); Picasso in Munich (Picasso in München, 1996); Hick's Dream (Neue Freiheit - Keine Jobs, 1997); One Hand Clapping (Das Klatschen der Einen Hand, 2002)
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