Markus BUSCH (1965, Münster, Germany) studied Art and Film at the University of Cologne. After that, he worked successfully as a scriptwriter for television and films. <b>Rough</b> is his feature debut.<br />

Markus Busch

Dominik Graf

A middle-aged woman who hasn't found what she's looking for and a juvenile delinquent who doesn't yet know that he's looking for love meet on Corsica - strangers in a strange land. Late modernist portrait in digital video. Mind-blowing and heart-breaking.

IFFR 2013

Felsen, Der

Signals: Dominik Graf

Der Felsen

A family business faces bankruptcy. The daughter and heir falls into prostitution, only to rise again as an avenging angel. A charming hustler/lover, weakling boyfriend turned junkie and well-connected client all play their parts when her time comes. Sardonically chilly over-the-top melodrama.

Kalter Frühling, 

Kalter Frühling

Two women meet after a long time - only to find out that they were in love with the same guy decades ago. A profound meditation on passion, desire, yearning and lust; time lost and regained, life never adding up - camouflaged as a piece of prime-time crime.

Dreileben: Komm mir nicht nach, 

Dreileben: Komm mir nicht nach

An adaptation of Henry James' famous novella The Way It Came set among boarding school pupils. A ghost story about doom and deliverance. A deeply moving look at teenage desire and growing awareness of the ubiquitous presence of death.

Freunde der Freunde, Die

Die Freunde der Freunde

In 1818, writer Clemens Brentano began to chronicle the visions of stigmatized nun Anna Katharina Emmerick. This meeting of two kindred souls, yet so very different in spirit, becomes a serious political problem for the revolution-minded not-yet Germany... Heritage film as paranoid political thriller with apocalyptic overtones.

Gelübde, Das

Das Gelübde

Tania is an actress, 43. Thore is 15, a misfit in a small village at the northern tip of Germany. At the beginning of winter, Tania escapes from her numb life to the village. They meet. She decides to steal him from his parents.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Markus Busch

Filmography

Markus Busch at IFFR

Die Räuberin

Dreileben: Komm mir nicht nach

Der Felsen

Die Freunde der Freunde

Das Gelübde

Kalter Frühling