Orlacs Hände AKA The Hands of Orlac (1924)

Robert Wiene - Orlacs Hände AKA The Hands of Orlac (1924) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015202 silent, English intertitles Like his more famous The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene's The Hands of Orlac is ponderous but indelible. Orlac (Conrad Veidt) is a famous pianist whose hands—the tools of his trade and his wife Ivana's (Alexandra Sorina) favorite part of his body—are mangled in a horrific train wreck. The film is full of castration imagery, Freudian intimations (including a patriarchal ogre in a twisted castle), and assorted perversities (like the wife's erotic yearning to be touched), yet next to the relentlessly distorted subjectivity of Caligari, Wiene's handling here seems almost minimalist, keeping the camera angles mostly balanced as the horrors materialize through stark atmosphere and Veidt's extraordinary physical expressiveness. Paced like a funeral and saddled with one of the least satisfying endings in German expressionism, Orlac scarcely reaches the baroque complexities of The Man Who Laughs (where it was Veidt's grin, rather than his mitts, that tortured him). Nevertheless, it lingers as a unique waking nightmare both in the viewer's mind and in film history: He may have started a long line of unruly-appendage shocks (from the 1935 MGM remake Mad Love to the slapstick splatter of Evil Dead 2), but Wiene's greatest contribution was imagining, decades before Cronenberg, the ultimate horror of the body turning against itself. http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii2/mteste/4-2.png http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii2/mteste/9d-2.png http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii2/mteste/1-6.png --------not my rip-------- ~~~~~~ Orlacs Hande.avi ~~~~~~ File Size (in bytes):...........................1,231,134,720 --- Video Information --- Video Codec Name:...............................XviD 1.1.2 Final Duration (hh:mm:ss):............................1:52:44 Frame Count:....................................121622 Frame Width (pixels):...........................640 Frame Height (pixels):..........................480 Aspect Ratio:...................................1.333 Frames Per Second:..............................17.982 Video Bitrate (kbps):...........................1257 ......MPEG-4......B-VOP..................N-VOP...... Quality Factor (bits/pixel)/frame:..............0.228" --- Audio Information --- Audio Codec:....................................0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3 Audio Sample Rate (Hz):.........................48000 Audio Bitrate(kbps):............................192 Audio Bitrate Type ("CBR" or "VBR"):............CBR Audio Channel Count:............................2 ***************************************** Freakyflicks is a free and open community dedicated to preserving and sharing cinematic art in the digital era. Our goal is to disseminate such works of art to the widest audience possible through the channels provided by P2P technology. The Freakyflicks collection is limited to those films that have played an exceptional role in the history of cinema and its progression in becoming a great art. Films that are usually described as classic, cult, arthouse and avant-garde. If you have films that fit this description feel free to share them and participate in our community. All you need do is include this tag in your upload and join us at the forum to announce your release. https://board.freakyflicks.org/index.php 'If we all seed just 1:1, give at least what we take, this torrent will NEVER DIE'

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