The Andechs Feeling
Das Andechser Gefühl
West Germany
1974
68 Min
Color
German
Synopsis
This film opens with an anxious teacher named Herbert (played by Achternbusch) beginning a desperate, womanizing bender, drinking fetid beer infested with insects. In a violent disavowal, he refuses to go home with his neglected wife. Instead he opts to bed down with a waitress, who herself serves as a substitute for an actress with whom Herbert is taken. The actress comes to visit, evoking dramatic and excessive responses from the townspeople, particularly Herbert’s wife, who delivers a wailing monologue before carrying out her final, vengeful act. —Anthology Film Archives.
Director
Herbert Achternbusch
Herbert Achternbusch, born November 23, 1938, in Munich, wanted to become a painter and poet after finishing secondary school. But from 1960 to 1962, he consecutively studied at Pädagogische Hochschule München-Pasing, at Nuremberg’s Kunstakademie, and for three semesters at Munich’s Akademie der Bildenden Künste instead. Then, from 1962 on, Achternbusch worked in several jobs before colleagues and friends such as Martin Walser advised him to become a writer rather than a painter.
In 1969, Suhrkamp published “Hülle”, a collection of stories, Achternbusch’s first publication of meanwhile more than 50 books. Shortly after the publication, Achternbusch started to make films on substandard film and became part of the German auteur film scene. Achternbusch then played parts in films by Werner Herzog and Volker Schlöndorff and wrote the screen play to Herzog’s Herz aus Glas (Heart of Glass). —filmportal.de
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