Raskolnikow (1923)
Also known as Crime and Punishment
1923 · Silent film · 70 min · dir. Robert Wiene
- Drama
Synopsis
Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis, that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions are necessary for the benifit of mankind, murders an old woman, who operates a crooked loaning house, as well as her sister, who made the mistake of visiting her at the wrong time. He is suspected of the crime, but somebody else confesses to the murder. Meanwhile, he has fallen in love with Sonja, the street-walking daughter of an ex-official who…
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Details
- Director
- Robert Wiene
- Writer
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Cinematography
- Willy Goldberger
- Studio
- Leonardo-Film
- Released
- 1923-10-26
- Original title
- Raskolnikow
- Running time
- 70 minutes
Cast & crew
Robert Wiene Director
Gregori Chmara
Elisabeta Skulskaja
Alla Tarasova
Andrei Zhilinsky
Mikhail Tarkhanov- Mariya Germanova
Maria Kryshanovskaya- Pavel Pavlov
