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The hands of Orlac, TF Transit Film ; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung ; direction, Robert Wiene ; photography, Günther Krampf, Hans Androschin ; adapted by Louis Nerz from the novel by Maurice Renard

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The hands of Orlac, TF Transit Film ; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung ; direction, Robert Wiene ; photography, Günther Krampf, Hans Androschin ; adapted by Louis Nerz from the novel by Maurice Renard
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Not rated
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The hands of Orlac
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192075554
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TF Transit Film ; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung ; direction, Robert Wiene ; photography, Günther Krampf, Hans Androschin ; adapted by Louis Nerz from the novel by Maurice Renard
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110
Summary
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
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live action
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