Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (1923)

Raskolnikow

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Date of release
1923-10-26
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (13)
Runtime
2h 22m
Genres
Drama
Director
Robert Wiene

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Crime and Punishment

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

Background

Crime and Punishment is Robert Wiene's third expressionist film, following The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Genuine. The sets were designed by Andrei Andreyev, who created a labyrinthine and distorted decor in the style of the Caligari film. The actors all came from Stanislavski 's Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT ).

The film had seven acts and, due to its length of 3168 meters, a running time of more than two hours (at a frame rate of 20 frames per second).

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