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The Hands of Orlac is a autrichien film of genre Drama directed by Robert Wiene released in USA on 4 june 1928 with Conrad Veidt

The Hands of Orlac (1924)

The Hands of Orlac
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Released in USA 4 june 1928
Length 1h53
Directed by
OriginAustria
Genres Drama,    Science fiction,    Thriller,    Fantasy,    Horror,    Crime
Rating69% 3.4963553.4963553.4963553.4963553.496355

The Hands of Orlac (German: Orlacs Hände) is a 1924 Austrian silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina and Fritz Kortner. The film's plot is based on the story Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard. Wiene had made his name as a director of Expressionist films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and in The Hands of Orlac combined expressionist motifs with more naturalistic visuals. The film has been remade twice.

Synopsis

Concert pianist Paul Orlac (Conrad Veidt) loses his hands in a horrible railway accident. His wife Yvonne (Alexandra Sorina) pleads with a surgeon to try and save Orlac’s hands. The surgeon transplants the hands of a recently executed murderer named Vasseur. When Orlac learns this, horror obsesses him. He is tortured by the presence of a knife he finds at his house, just like that used by Vasseur, and the desire to kill. He believes that along with the hands he has acquired the murderer's predisposition to violence. He confronts the surgeon, telling him to remove the hands, but the surgeon tries to convince him that a person’s acts are not governed by hands, but by the head and heart.

Actors

Conrad Veidt

(Paul Orlac)Fritz Kortner

(Nera)
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