Crime and Punishment (1971)

  • 12
  • 12/31/1971 (DE)
  • Drama
  • 3h 41m

Overview

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. Will he accept responsibility?

Lev Kulidzhanov

Director, Screenplay

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novel

Nikolai Figurovsky

Screenplay

Cast

Georgi Taratorkin's headshot

Georgi Taratorkin

Raskolnikov
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy's headshot

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Porfiry Petrovitch
Viktoriya Fyodorova's headshot

Viktoriya Fyodorova

Avdotya Romanovna
Yevgeni Lebedev's headshot

Yevgeni Lebedev

Marmeladov
Vladimir Basov's headshot

Vladimir Basov

Luzhin
Aleksandr Pavlov's headshot

Aleksandr Pavlov

Dmitry Razumikhin
Lyubov Sokolova's headshot

Lyubov Sokolova

Yelizaveta Ivanovna
Efim Kopelyan's headshot

Efim Kopelyan

Svidrigailov

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