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Crime and Punishment

61% | Sep 28, 1970 | Drama

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?

Featured Crew

Lev Kulidzhanov
Director
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novel

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Georgi Taratorkin
Raskolnikov
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Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Porfiry Petrovitch
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Viktoriya Fyodorova
Avdotya Romanovna
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Yevgeni Lebedev
Marmeladov

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