Robert WieneCast
Conrad Veidt Alexandra Sorina 
Fritz Kortner
Credits
Written by: Louis Nerz Maurice Renard
Music: Henning Lohner Paul Mercer
Plot
A pianist loses his hands in a crash and receives a murderer's hands in a transplant, and fears they will take control of him.
Sinekatalog’s take
Robert Wiene's silent horror stars Conrad Veidt as a pianist whose transplanted hands might belong to a murderer. Eerie, expressionistic and tense, with Veidt's anguished performance, it is a haunting early chiller.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.0 / 10 (3,934 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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