Crime and punishment
By: director and writer, Robert Wiene
Contributors: Chmara, Gregory, -1970; Germanova, Mariya; Kryshanovskaya, Maria; Tarasova, Alla Konstantinovna, 1898-1973; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881; Alpha Home Entertainment (Firm)
Publisher: Alpha Home Entertainment
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Narberth, PA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: German Motion pictures
Other titles: Raskolnikow; Robert Wiene's Crime and punishment; F. Dostoyevsky's crime and punishment; Raskolnikow. English.
Description: The director of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari adapted Fyodor Dostoyevsky's literary masterwork Crime and Punishment for the screen with this feature made at the height of the Expressionist movement in German cinema. The story concerns a poor, imperious former law student who believes that he is a special kind of person exempt from any moral law. He murders a woman and her sister and is sent to prison for years.
Notes: Silent with English intertitles and musical accompaniment.

Title from disc label.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1923.

Gregori Chmara, Mariya Germanova, Maria Kryshanovskaya, Pavel Pavlov, Alla Tarasova.

DVD.