The Hands of Orlac (1924 film)

The Hands of Orlac German Orlacs Hnde is a 1924 Austrian silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina and Fritz Kortner. The films plot is based on the story Les Mains dOrlac by Maurice Renard. Wiene had made his name as a director of Expressionist films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and in The Hands of Orlac combined expressionist motifs with more naturalistic visuals. The film has been remade twice.

Orlacs new hands are unable to play the piano, and in time he and his wife run out of money. Creditors give them one more day to pay their bills. Yvonne goes to Pauls father for money, but is refused. Orlac himself then goes to see his father, but finds he has been stabbed to death with the same knife like Vasseurs. He starts to think he himself committed the murder, and goes to a caf for a drink. There he meets a man who claims he is Vasseur, who tells Orlac the same surgeon who did the hand transplant also transplanted a new head onto Vasseurs body. He then tells Orlac he wants money to keep quiet about the murder.In the meantime, police find Vasseurs finger prints at the scene of the crime, causing confusion. Paul and Yvonne Orlac decide to go to the police and try to explain about Vasseurs hands being on Pauls arms, but that he had no recollection of killing his father. He also tells the police about the man claiming to be the executed murderer, and the blackmail money. It turns out that the man is actually a con man, well known to police. Orlacs maid tells the police that he was a friend of Vasseur, and that he had made a set of rubber gloves with Vasseurs fingerprints. The gloves were used during the murder. ........

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