The Hands of Orlac / Orlacs Hände (1924) [Masters of Cinema - Eureka!, #248]
Blu-Ray | BDMV | AVC, 1920x1080, ~33.0 Mbps | 1hr 34mn | 43.5 GB
English (Score): LPCM Audio, 2 ch, 2304 kbps \ English (commentary): LPCM Audio, 2 ch, 2304 kbps
Subtitles: English, German (intertitles)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Reuniting the star and director of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, The Hands of Orlac [Orlac’s Hände] is a deliciously twisted thriller that blends grand guignol thrills with the visual and performance styles of German Expressionism.
Based on a novel by medical-horror novelist Maurice Renard, it charts the mental disintegration of a concert pianist (Conrad Veidt) 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 steady descent towards madness.