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Orlacs Hände
A pianist wakes with a murderer's hands sewn to his wrists.
What
The 1924 poster for Robert Wiene's Orlacs Hände (The Hands of Orlac).
Why
Wiene, returning to Expressionist dread after Caligari, made a fever-dream of guilt, grafted flesh and hands that seem to act alone.
Notice
Notice how the composition drives everything toward the hands themselves.
“Guilt lodged in the flesh.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Orlacs Hände (1924), dir. Robert Wiene
- Country / studio
- Austria · Pan-Film
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- German-language lithograph film poster, 1924
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈3.5×) of the surviving archival scan (original 340×490px). The upscale raises resolution only — the design is unaltered, and the paper’s folds and age are the artifact’s own.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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