Orlacs Hände

Österreich 1924 Spielfilm

Summary

The Hands of Orlac

One day, famous pianist Orlac badly hurts his hands in an accident. To enable him to resume piano playing, his purpose in life, Orlac′s surgeon decides to transplant Orlac the hands of a recently executed robber and murderer. But although Orlac completely recovers from the accident, his virtuosity of piano playing has vanished. Furthermore, he gets more and more absorbed by the delusion that he had not only received the murderer′s hands but also his disposition to brutality. Strange signs and threatening letters support this obsessive idea. When Orlac′s rich father, with whom he was at enmity, is murdered, he gets accused of killing his father. Is Orlac really the murderer or the victim of an intrigue?

 

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Shoot

    • 1924 [Spätsommer]
Duration:
7 Akte, 2507 m
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, stumm
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 25.09.1924, B.09074, Jugendverbot;
Zensur (DE): 05.02.1925, O.00021, Jugendverbot

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 24.09.1924, Berlin, Haydn-Kino;
Voraufführung (AT): 30.09.1924, Wien [Pressevorführung];
Kinostart (DE): 31.01.1925, Berlin, U.T. Nollendorfplatz;
Kinostart (AT): 06.03.1925, Wien;
TV-Erstsendung (DE FR): 11.01.2001, Arte [Rekonstruierte Fassung]

Titles

  • Verleihtitel (US) The Hands of Orlac
  • Schreibvariante (DE) Orlac's Hände
  • Originaltitel (AT) Orlacs Hände
  • Weiterer Titel (DE) Die unheimlichen Hände des Doktor Orlac

Versions

Original

Duration:
7 Akte, 2507 m
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, stumm
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 25.09.1924, B.09074, Jugendverbot;
Zensur (DE): 05.02.1925, O.00021, Jugendverbot

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 24.09.1924, Berlin, Haydn-Kino;
Voraufführung (AT): 30.09.1924, Wien [Pressevorführung];
Kinostart (DE): 31.01.1925, Berlin, U.T. Nollendorfplatz;
Kinostart (AT): 06.03.1925, Wien;
TV-Erstsendung (DE FR): 11.01.2001, Arte [Rekonstruierte Fassung]

Prüffassung

Duration:
2357 m, 86 min
Format:
35mm
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 19.03.1996, 74946, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei