Born in Cologne to an Italian father and a Turkish mother, Moschitto spent the early 1990s creating tracker music for the demoscene under the alias Merlin M, a background that later complemented his work as a co-author of computer-themed books and a member of electronic bands. He entered cinema with Rolf Schübel’s Gloomy Sunday in 1999 and quickly became a familiar face in German youth and coming-…