The hands of Orlac : Orlacs hände /
Charts the mental disintegration of a concert pianist whose hands are amputated after a train crash, and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer. When Orlac's father is murdered by the dead man's hands, Orlac begins a descent toward madness.
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Silent film with musical score and English intertitles. |
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New York, N.Y. :
Kino International,
[2008]
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| Series: | German expressionism collection.
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| Summary: | Charts the mental disintegration of a concert pianist whose hands are amputated after a train crash, and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer. When Orlac's father is murdered by the dead man's hands, Orlac begins a descent toward madness. |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. From the novel "Les mains d'Orlac" by Maurice Renard. Originally released as a motion picture in 1924. Film restored in 1995 by Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin, the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, and the Deutsches Filminstitut, with the cooperation of Jugoslovenska Kinoteka, Belgrad. Video restoration in 2008 by Bret Wood, Kino International Corp. Special features: New HD transfer from a restored 35mm print; musical score by Paul Mercer; scene comparisons of domestic and international cuts of the film; excerpts of Maurice Renard's novel; essay by John Soister, author of the book "Conrad Veidt on screen"; trailer of "Mad love," the 1935 remake starring Peter Lorre; image gallery. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; NTSC. |
| Audience: | Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Photographers, Hans Androschin, Günther Krampf ; music, Paul Mercer ; English translator, Jason Hodges. |