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Before director Tod Browning made his major film Freaks (1932), went to the circus environment also with the hard-hitting story of a man who for love had left her hands cut off. His eventful and properly morbid life story will be at the Festival of the thick-skinned viewer project accompanied by live music, specifically vinyl sound alchemy in the hands of improvisers group of Birds Build Nests Underground. In the film considered one of the most bizarre browning's opuses acting legend Lon Chaney presents a knife thrower Alonzo, who pretends that he has no hands to escape from the law. The former criminally sophisticated would otherwise have been easily identified by two inches on one of his hands. Love to a beautiful figurantce Nanon (portrayed by a young star Joan Crawford), who hates the touch of men's arms, it eventually leads to the idea to keep the two limbs surgically removed, to the beloved girl could truly rest in his bezručí. Chaney in another of his demonic creations showcases not only the register of his sinister facial grimaces, but also a range of acrobatic skills including throwing knives or smoke using only his feet.