The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Directed by Robert Wiene · Cinematography by Günther Krampf, Hans Androschin
92 min58 frames
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What is The Hands of Orlac about?
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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What does the cinematography of The Hands of Orlac look like?
Sampled across 58 frames, the coverage of The Hands of Orlac leans on wide compositions (48% of the sample) and medium shots (28%). Cinematographer Günther Krampf keeps 43% of it in hard-edged, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 55% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 76% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1920s.
What is the color palette of The Hands of Orlac?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Hands of Orlac (1924) are #030303, #303030, #8e8e8e, #cdcdcd, #6b6b6b, #fcfcfc — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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