The hands of Orlac = Orlacs hände
(DVD)

Title from container.

From the novel "Les mains d'Orlac" by Maurice Renard.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1924.

Film restored in 1995 by Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin, the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, and the Deutsches Filminstitut, with the cooperation of Jugoslovenska Kinoteka, Belgrad. Video restoration in 2008 by Bret Wood, Kino International Corp.

Special features: New HD transfer from a restored 35mm print; musical score by Paul Mercer; scene comparisons of domestic and international cuts of the film; excerpts of Maurice Renard's novel; essay by John Soister, author of the book "Conrad Veidt on screen"; trailer of "Mad love," the 1935 remake starring Peter Lorre; image gallery.

Photographers, Hans Androschin, Günther Krampf ; music, Paul Mercer ; English translator, Jason Hodges.

Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner.

Charts the mental disintegration of a concert pianist 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 descent toward madness.

DVD; NTSC.

Silent film with musical score and English intertitles.