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ANDREAS MARSCHALL was born 1961 in Karlsruhe, Germany and began his career as an artist of graphic novels and Metal covers. Among others, he designed the movie posters for Jörg Buttgereit´s genre classics NEKROMANTIK and NEKROMANTIK 2 and record artworks for OBITUARY.
Marschall’s first film project as a director was the rock-music-compilation HALLUCINATIVE COMAS (1991) for the Heavy Metal band Kreator. Since then, he has directed over 80 video clips, for Heavy Metal-, Rock- and Pop-Groups (such as Sodom, Thunderhead, Guano Apes), as well as commercials and corporate films.
Marschall edited feature films such as TRACK (1996), AS FAR AS MY FEET WILL CARRY ME (2001) , HAVANA DARKNESS (2017) and TV programs and has worked as a screenwriter (THE COLD HEART, 2016). He also worked as a drama teacher at various German schools.
In 2004 he made his feature film debut with the innovative, award winning TEARS OF KALI (“The most beautiful and intense German horror film in 20 years“- Sebastian Selig), which became an instant hit among festival-goers and a box-office success. It was distributed in all the major key territories and is today considered an independent genre classic.
The following movie MASKS (2011) is both a loving tribute to the Italian genre cinema of the seventies and a fascinating Thriller-experience, that stands on its own.
Marschall´s latest project was a collaboration with Jörg Buttgereit and Michal Kosakowski on the anthology movie GERMAN ANGST (2015). He directed the 45-minute episode ALRAUNE, a dark and erotic thriller that transfers the mystic legend of the Mandragora plant into modern-day Berlin.
With his films Marschall creates a self-confident and idiosyncratic style that adopts and updates traditions of German silent film expressionism and the wild European genre film excesses of the 60s and 70s.
