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Crime and Punishment (Преступление и наказание)
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?
Key Crew
Director: Lev Kulidzhanov
Screenplay: Lev Kulidzhanov, Nikolai Figurovsky
Director of Photography: Vyacheslav Shumskiy
Top Cast
Georgi Taratorkin
Raskolnikov
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Porfiry Petrovitch
Viktoriya Fyodorova
Avdotya Romanovna
Yevgeni Lebedev
Marmeladov
Vladimir Basov
Luzhin
Aleksandr Pavlov
Dmitry Razumikhin
Lyubov Sokolova
Yelizaveta Ivanovna
Efim Kopelyan
Svidrigailov
