Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a 1969 Soviet drama film in two parts directed by Lev Kulidzhanov, based on the eponymous 1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Directed by | Lev Kulidzhanov |
Written by | Lev Kulidzhanov Nikolai Figurovsky Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novel) |
Starring | Georgy Taratorkin Innokenty Smoktunovsky Tatyana Bedova Victoria Fyodorova |
Cinematography | Vyacheslav Shumsky |
Music by | Mikhail Ziv |
Production company | Gorky Film Studio |
Release date | 1969 |
Running time | 221 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention through normal procedures (he was the victim's client), but his outbursts make him the prime suspect of the clever Porfiry. Meanwhile, life swirls around Raskolnikov: his mother and sister come to the city followed by two older men seeking his sister's hand; he meets a drunken clerk who is then killed in a traffic accident, and he falls in love with the man's daughter, Sonia, a young prostitute. She urges him to confess, promising to follow him to Siberia.
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866) | |
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