The Hands of Orlac

The world-famous pianist Paul Orlac loses both hands in a train accident. The artist who gets new hands has no idea that his new limbs once belonged to a murderer. He doesn’t know how to live with them, fights anxiety attacks as well as a lust for killing. The whole situation becomes even more desperate when Orlac’s father dies and the suspicion falls right on him.

Orlacs Hände (Robert Wiene, AT/DE, 1924, 92 min., GS+ES+SS)