Merlin Ortner

参加作品

水を抱く女
Production Design
Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. When the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. But falling in love anew, Undine reworks the myth of the mysterious water spirit as a modern fairy-tale in a disenchanted world.
サスペリア
Art Direction
1977年、ベルリンを拠点とする世界的に有名な舞踊団<マルコス・ダンス・カンパニー>に入団するため、スージー・バニヨンは夢と希望を胸にボストンからやってきた。初のオーディションでカリスマ振付師マダム・ブランの目に留まり、すぐに大事な演目のセンターに抜擢される。そんな中、マダム・ブラン直々のレッスンを続ける彼女のまわりで不可解な出来事が頻発、ダンサーが次々と失踪を遂げる。一方、心理療法士クレンペラー博士は、患者であった若きダンサーの行方を捜すうち、舞踊団の闇に近づいていく。やがて、舞踊団に隠された恐ろしい秘密が明らかになり、スージーの身にも危険が及んでいた──。
マルクス・エンゲルス
Art Direction
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
あの日のように抱きしめて
Art Direction
German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly survived Auschwitz but had to undergo reconstructive surgery as her face was disfigured. Without recognizing Nelly, her former husband Johnny asks her to help him claim his wife’s inheritance. To see if he betrayed her, she agrees, becoming her own doppelganger.
Gold
Art Direction
Canada, the summer of 1898. A group of German settlers travel towards the far north in covered wagons with packhorses and their few possessions in tow. The seven travellers set off from Ashcroft, the final railway station. Along with their leader, flamboyant businessman Wilhelm Laser, they are hoping to find their fortune in the recently discovered goldfields of Dawson, but they have no idea of the stresses and dangers which lie ahead on their 2,500 kilometre journey. Before long uncertainty, cold weather and exhaustion begin to take their toll and conflicts escalate. The journey leads these men and women deeper and deeper into a menacing wilderness. (Berlinale.de)
東ベルリンから来た女
Assistant Production Design
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.