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Klangforum Wien / Kalitzke
Wiene: Orlac's Hände
Tuesday
21
November
2023
19:30
Großer Saal
Performers
Klangforum Wien
Johannes Kalitzke, Dirigent
Programme
Film »Orlac's Hände« (Regie: Robert Wiene, Ö 1925)
Johannes Kalitzke
Musik zu »Orlac's Hände« (Regie: Robert Wiene, Ö 1925) (2018) (EA)
Note
Medienpartner ray Filmmagazin und Ö1 Club
Subscription series
Film + Musik live
Links
https://klangforum.at
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Tension in image and sound
With its thousands of nerve cells, the hand is an important sensory organ that perceives the finest pressure, movement and vibration stimuli. Life without hands? Unimaginable! And what would life be like with someone else's hands? Robert Wiene's late expressionist masterpiece »Orlac's Hands« from 1924 deals with this question: after a train accident, the severely injured pianist Paul Orlac is transplanted with the hands of an alleged murderer. When he learns of the identity of the condemned »donor«, he is tormented by the thought that the »evil« hands could take possession of him or harm loved ones. Johannes Kalitzke and the Klangforum Wien sensitively trace the pianist's drama of the soul in Kalitzke's 2018 »Score of Fears«.
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