(1924) Directed by: Robert Wiene; Written by Louis Nerz; Based on the novel Les Mains d’Orlac by Maurice Renard;
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner, and Carmen Cartellieri;
Available on DVD
Rating: ***
“I feel like it comes from you, along the read more
The Hands of Orlac, or Orlacs Hände, is a late expressionist silent film produced by Robert Wiene (of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fame). This is a weird one, people. A pianist loses his hands and gets a pretty amazing hand transplant. But they’re the hands of a killer! Does Orlac control his read more
The Hands of Orlac, or Orlacs Hände, is a late expressionist silent film produced by Robert Wiene (of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fame). This is a weird one, people. A pianist loses his hands and gets a pretty amazing hand transplant. But they’re the hands of a killer! Does Orlac control his read more
If you like silent movies, you gotta admire those Germans. And if you’re a fan of the horror genre, you’ve got to raise a toast to those Germans. That style of movie-making known as “German Expressionism,” with it’s peculiar tension between clinical reality and feveris read more
If you like silent movies, you gotta admire those Germans. And if you’re a fan of the horror genre, you’ve got to raise a toast to those Germans. That style of movie-making known as “German Expressionism,” with it’s peculiar tension between clinical reality and feveris read more
The actress Carmen Cartellieri, was born as Franziska Ottilia Cartellieri in Prossnitz. At the age of 16 she married painter and director Emanuel Ziffer Edler von Teschenbruck.
After she met with director Cornelius Hintner, he put her in her first movie role, "Das Zigeunermächen", under the pse read more
