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Raskolnikow is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Robert Wiene.[1] The film is an adaptation of the 1866 novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.[3]

Raskolnikow
Directed by	Robert Wiene
Screenplay by	Robert Wiene [1]
Based on	Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Produced by	Robert Wiene[1]
Starring	Gregori Chmara Elisaweta Skulskaja Alla Tarasova
Cinematography	Willy Goldberger[1]
Production company	Neumann-Film-Produktion GmbH[1]
Release date	3 November 1923[2]
Country	Germany

The film is characterised by Jason Buchanan of AllMovie as a German expressionist view of the story: a "nightmarish" avant-garde or experimental psychological drama.[4] It premiered at the Mozartsaal in Berlin.[2]

Cast

• Gregori Chmara as Rodion Raskolnikow
• Elisabeta Skulskaja as Mother of Rodion Raskolnikow
• Alla Tarasova as Sister of Rodion Raskolnikow
• Andrei Zhilinsky as Rasumichin
• Mikhail Tarkhanov as Marmeladow
• Mariya Germanova as Wife of Marmeladow
• Maria Kryshanovskaya as Sonja, daughter of Marmeladow
• Pavel Pavlov as Untersuchungsrichter (investigating judge)
• Toma as Alona Iwanowa, die Wucherin (the usurer)
• Petr Sharov as Swidrigailow
• Ivan Bersenev as ein Kleinbürger (a member of the petite bourgeoisie)

Reception

In a retrospective review by Tim Pulleine in the Monthly Film Bulletin that the film was "a conventional prestige opus of the day."[5] Pulleine opined that the dramatisation of the novel was "tolerably effective, barring a few lapses into excessive histrionics (Marmeladov's expiatory confession of alcoholism might have looked extreme in a temperance melodrama)."[5] Pulleine also found that the "most basic problem [...] is that the set designs create a rebarbative dichotomy within the film, since-apart perhaps from the sequences taking place on the stairway leading up to a pawnbroker's flat-the performers are not spatially integrated into the settings but remain obstinately on a separate plane of stylisation."[5]

References

Bibliography

• Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.

External links

• Raskolnikow at AllMovie
• Raskolnikow at IMDb

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