Films by Michael Busch

Germany 2009, 86 min
by Wolfgang Richter, Hannes Karnick

Robert Jay Lifton a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and author visited 80 Auschwitz survivors and 40 Holocaust perpetrators, mainly former Nazi physicians. He describes as a second generation eye witness how ordinary doctors change from healers to killers.The film's aim is to bring to life things which were embedded deep in the psyche of people. The pictures and the shocking truth Lifton evokes in the minds of the audience turned out to be more moving and impressive than all the historical materia

Germany 2008
by Cornelia Thau

Four families, four children born with the Down-Syndrome, four concepts how to meet such a challenge. Joerg, Carina, Anica und Finnian were born in 1969, 1985, 1994 and 2002. Cornelia Thau accompanied the families for more than 4 years. In FOUR LIVES the parents frankly talk about their wishes, hopes and successes, but also about the disappointments, doubts and difficult decisions they have to make. Joerg, Carina, Anica und Finnian present themselves as selfassured personages with own interests