Crime and Punishment (1923)
- Original title
- Raskolnikow
- Directed by
- Robert Wiene
- Genre
- drama film, silent film
- Country
- Weimar Republic, Germany
- Runtime
- 2h 15m
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 13 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young man commits a murder and then struggles with guilt and paranoia. The story follows his mental breakdown and growing fear of being caught.
tensedarkdreamlikegloomyvisually starkpsychologicalunsettlingclaustrophobic
What happens
Crime and Punishment (German: Raskolnikow) 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. 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. It premiered at the Mozartsaal in Berlin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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