Die unheimlichen Hände des Doktor Orlac
Austria / German Empire,
1924, 92 min
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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 toward madness. (official distributor synopsis)
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