Die Markus Family (2001)
• March 1st, 2001 • 1h 20min
Documentary
Overview
This film tells the story of Markus Anatol Weisse, who, astonishingly enough, became an artist, in spite of being only very partially sighted. Markus also builds strange machine-like beings and wishes that he himself were a biological robot, or cyborg.
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