| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (113 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in |
| Contents |
Special features : Scene comparison -- About the restoration -- Film notes by John T. Soister -- Gallery of images -- "Mad Love" trailer |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Film restored in 1995 by Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin, the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, and the Deutsches Filminstitut, with the cooperation of Jugoslovenska Kinoteka, Belgrad. Video restoration in 2008 by Bret Wood, Kino International Corp |
| Credits |
Photography : Günther Krampf, Hans Androschin ; music composed and arranged by Paul Mercer ; English translation by Jason Hodges |
| Performer |
Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner |
| Notes |
DVD |
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Rated: Not rated |
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Silent film with musical score and English intertitles |
| Subject |
Demoniac possession -- Drama.
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Disfigured persons -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Silent films.
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Feature films.
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Horror films.
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Detective and mystery films.
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Video recordings.
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Drama.
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| Author |
Wiene, Robert, director
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Veidt, Conrad, 1893-1943, actor
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Sorina, Alexandra, 1899-1973, actor
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Kortner, Fritz, actor
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Nerz, Louis, adapter
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Renard, Maurice, 1875-1939, bibliographic antecedent
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Mercer, Paul, 1971- musician
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Kino International Corporation.
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Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.
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Transit Film.
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