Blu Ray: The Hands of Orlac (Orlacs Hände)
The German director Robert Wiene is best known for The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, perhaps the most influential piece of expressionist cinema. He's not as well known as Murnau or Lang, but the quality of his work is on the same level. The Hands of Orlac is a very fine example of a cinema haunted by the violence and death of the First World War, and containing within it both seeds of fascist aesthetics and the darkness that characterises film noir.
Source: theartsdesk.com