The Hands of Orlac
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A German Expressionist psychological horror about identity and bodily violation, where a pianist's grafted murderer's hands become a source of existential dread and paranoid terror.
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.
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