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The Hands of Orlac (German: Orlacs Hände) is a 1924 Austrian silent film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina and Fritz Kortner.
The Hands of Orlac: Directed by Robert Wiene. With Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Strassny, Paul Askonas. A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer.
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- Crime, Horror, Mystery
- Robert Wiene
- 1928-06-04
Oct 14, 2011 · The story: his hands are all-important to concert pianist Paul Orlac, and they are damaged beyond repair in a terrible train crash. His surgeon is able to transplant new hands from a freshly executed killer. Orlac's over-active imagination and a malevolent predator plunge him into madness and despair. Then comes the startling conclusion.
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.
The Hands of Orlac is an interesting synthesis of expressionism and a more naturalist aesthetic, moving away from the extreme abstraction of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to a more subdued and realistic approach but retaining the same nightmarish atmosphere in this performance based horror-thriller.
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- Pan-Film KG Wien
- Robert Wiene
Feb 17, 2024 · The Hands of Orlac (German: Orlacs Hände) is a 1924 Austrian silent film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina and Fritz Kortner. It is based on the novel Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard.
The pianist Paul Orlac is on tour and his wife Yvonne Orlac anxiously waits for his return. While traveling back home, there is a train wreck at Montgeron and Orlac is very injured in both hands in the accident. Yvonne begs to Dr. Serral to save his hands which are his life.
