Crime and Punishment
About Crime and Punishment
Student Raskolnikow has written that extraordinary people may commit a crime if mankind needs the act. He kills an old woman who runs a crooked loan business, and he kills her sister when she walks in. He falls under suspicion, and someone else confesses.
Cast & crew
More about Crime and Punishment
Robert Wiene directed and wrote this adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1866 novel, released in German as Raskolnikow. Hans Neumann produced, and the premiere was at the Mozartsaal in Berlin. Wikidata lists 135 minutes and both the Weimar Republic and Germany.
Themes
Reviews
Jason Buchanan of AllMovie describes the film as a German expressionist, nightmarish psychological drama.
Look
Willy Goldberger photographed Wiene's adaptation.
Notes
- Gregori Chmara, Alla Tarasova, and Mikhail Tarkhanov are on the Wikidata cast.
- The catalog also bills Elisabeta Skulskaja, Andrei Zhilinsky, and Mariya Germanova.
- Willy Goldberger is the cinematographer on Wikidata.
- The catalog overview spells the stated motive with the word benifit.
Scenes
- Raskolnikow kills the moneylender and then her sister, who has arrived unplanned.
Influenced by
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866)
Also available
- Internet Archive (raskolnikow)
