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In the opening montage of a 1992 film that pays homage to this movement, a voiceover warns the village children to keep silent, lest they start an avalanche. In a film from this movement, a woman finds her husband alone in a room, stabbing at the air with a knife that was in his piano. That film from this movement ends as a couple embraces after learning that Vasseur, the original owner of the title body parts, (10[1])was not a murderer. Guy Maddin’s Careful visually imitates this movement by tinting frames in monochrome orange or blue. (-5[1])This movement (10[1])is studied in Lotte Eisner’s (10[1])(“LOT-uh EYES-nur’s”) The Haunted Screen and was linked to totalitarianism (10[1])by (10[1])Siegfried (10[4])Kracauer (“KRAH-cow-er”). Robert (-5[1])Wiene’s (“VEE-nuh’s”) The Hands (10[1])of Orlac is from (10[1])this movement, along with a film whose villain’s (10[1])claws appear in (10[1])his silhouette as he ascends the (10[1])stairs. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1]-5[1])F. W. Murnau’s (10[2])Nosferatu was part of what movement? (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Expressionism [or Expressionist cinema or expressionistische Film; accept German Expressionism or deutscher Expressionismus]
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