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The hands of Orlac [videorecording] = Orlac's hände /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: EKA70427 | Eurika EntertainmentVFK04630 | Filmarchiv AustriaPublisher: Eureka Entertainment Ltd. Description: 1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Audience:
  • Adults
Other title:
  • Orlac's hände
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Incomplete contents:
Special Blu-Ray Edition : 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a restoration of the origional film elements by @filmarchiv Ausria. LPCM 2.0 Score by Johannes Kalitzke, Origional German language intertitles with optional English subtitles. Feature Length Audio Commentary with Author Stephen Jones and Author/ Critic Kim Newman, Extremities - Video essay by filmmakers David Cairns & Fiona Watson. Alternate presentation of the hands of Orlac [SD, 110 minutes] - Courtesy of the F. W. Murnau Foundation, a presentation of the film struck from a different print source, featuring alternate takes of certain scenes Includes a musical score by Paul Mercer, version Comparison feature. Plus: A collector's booklet featuring new essays by Philip Kemp and Time Lucas.
Production credits:
  • Photography : Günther Krampf, Hans Androschin ; music composed and arranged by Paul Mercer ; English translation by Jason Hodges.
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner.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.
List(s) this item appears in: New Films
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00640 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050316597

Film restored in 1995 by Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin, the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, and the Deutsches Filminstitut, with the cooperation of Jugoslovenska Kinoteka, Belgrad.

Special Blu-Ray Edition : 1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a restoration of the origional film elements by @filmarchiv Ausria. LPCM 2.0 Score by Johannes Kalitzke, Origional German language intertitles with optional English subtitles. Feature Length Audio Commentary with Author Stephen Jones and Author/ Critic Kim Newman, Extremities - Video essay by filmmakers David Cairns & Fiona Watson. Alternate presentation of the hands of Orlac [SD, 110 minutes] - Courtesy of the F. W. Murnau Foundation, a presentation of the film struck from a different print source, featuring alternate takes of certain scenes Includes a musical score by Paul Mercer, version Comparison feature. Plus: A collector's booklet featuring new essays by Philip Kemp and Time Lucas.

Rating: PG.

Blu-ray region B

Silent film with musical score and English intertitles.

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