Following an accident, the talented pianist Paul Orlac is given the hands of an executed murderer in a transplant. All the dead man’s most brutal inclinations seem to have been transplanted with them. With the protagonist healed and yet so close to madness at the same time, the action
escalates until eventually a murder is committed. Was it really Orlac? This classic piece of
expressionist cinema processes the trauma of the First World War and is one of the founding works of the horror genre.
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Release: Österreich 1924
Format: dcp, s/w, German title cards
Duration: 95 Minuten
Director: Robert Wiene
Screenplay: Louis Nerz, nach dem Roman von Maurice Renard
Camera: Günther Krampf, Hans Androschin
With: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner, Carmen Cartellieri, Paul Askonas, Fritz Strassny
Archive: Filmarchiv Austria
Live music: Sebastian Herzfeld