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Conrad Veidt in Robert Wiene's The hands of Orlac
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Transit Film GmbH ; Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung ; directed by Robert Wiene ; screenplay by Louis Nerz.
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.
Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner.
Silent film with musical score and English intertitles.
Photographers, Hans Androschin, Günther Krampf ; music, Paul Mercer ; English translator, Jason Hodges.