Films: Orlac's Hands
Original title: Orlac Hande
Direction: Robert Wiene.
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Fritz Kortner, Alexandra Sorina.
Censorship: Regular
Year of manufacture:: 1924
Country of origin: Germany, Austria
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Synopsis: A pianist in love with his wife loses his hands in a train accident and accepts to participate in a hand transplant experience in order to resume his successful career as a concert artist. Everything goes well until he discovers that the transplanted hands belong to a murderer. The pianist is upset and begins to believe that he is having the same impulses as the former owner of the hands. From that moment, the madness of the character begins, lost, disgusted with his hands. How to touch his wife's beloved body and piano keyboards with those crime-stained hands?