The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hände)

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Directed by

Robert Wiene

Starring

Conrad Veidt
Paul Orlac

Alexandra Sorina
Yvonne Orlac

Fritz Strassny
Der alte Orlac

Paul Askonas
Der Diener

Carmen Cartellieri
Regine

Hans Homma
Dr. Serral

Fritz Kortner
Nera

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Description: Reuniting the star and director of THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE HANDS OF ORLAC is a deliriously twisted thriller that blends Grand Guignol chills with the visual and performance styles of German Expressionism. Based on a novel by medical-horror specialist Maurice Renard, it charts the mental disintegration of Paul Orlac (Conrad Veidt), a concert pianist whose hands are amputated after a train crash and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer. When his father is murdered by the dead man’s hands, Orlac begins a steady descent into madness. Produced in Vienna just as psychoanalysis was emerging there, THE HANDS OF ORL ... (more)

Release date: 4 June 1928

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