Schräge Welten: "Orlac's Hände" - Stummfilm mit Livemusik

The series of expressionist silent films with live piano accompaniment features another masterpiece by Robert Wiene - accompanying the exhibition "Kirchner, Lehmbruck, Nolde - Stories of Expressionism in Mannheim" at the Kunsthalle Mannheim:

ORLAC'S HANDS

AUT 1924. D: Robert Wiene. D: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner, Carmen Cartellieri. 100 min. silent movie with live music. FSK: 0

The pianist Orlac gets into a terrible train accident on his way home from a tour. He loses both hands. New hands are sewn onto him - they come from an executed robbery murderer. From then on, he is haunted by panic attacks; he can no longer play the piano with the criminal's hands and no longer dares to approach his wife. Then a murder takes place - the murder weapon bears the fingerprints of the murderer, whose hands are now Orlac's hands...
Robert Wiene's last expressionist silent film, which combines realistic crime film motifs with elements of the then still young science of psychology, is an impressive interplay of light and shadow: the expressionist imagery illustrates Orlac's psychological state and his struggle with the awareness of having murderer's hands.

With lecture "Expressionism in the visual arts and its effects on film" by Dr. Dorothee Höfert and Inge Herold (art historians)

Silent film with live piano music by Frieder Egri

Admission: 20 € / 15 € reduced / 13 € members Cinema Quadrat e.V.