Title: Crime and punishment
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.
Subjects: German Motion pictures