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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.




Cast


Gregori Chmara as Rodion Raskolnikow
Elisabeta Skulskaja as Mother of Rodion Raskolnikow
Alla Tarasova as Sister of Rodion Raskolnikow
Andrei Zhilinsky as Rasumichin
Mikhail Tarkhanov as Marmeladow
Mariya Germanova as Wife of Marmeladow
Maria Kryshanovskaya as Sonja, daughter of Marmeladow
Pavel Pavlov as Untersuchungsrichter (investigating judge)
Toma as Alona Iwanowa, die Wucherin (the usurer)
Petr Sharov as Swidrigailow
Ivan Bersenev as ein Kleinbürger (a member of the petite bourgeoisie)




Reception


In a retrospective review by Tim Pulleine in the Monthly Film Bulletin that the film was "a conventional prestige opus of the day." Pulleine opined that the dramatisation of the novel was "tolerably effective, barring a few lapses into excessive histrionics (Marmeladov's expiatory confession of alcoholism might have looked extreme in a temperance melodrama)." Pulleine also found that the "most basic problem [...] is that the set designs create a rebarbative dichotomy within the film, since-apart perhaps from the sequences taking place on the stairway leading up to a pawnbroker's flat-the performers are not spatially integrated into the settings but remain obstinately on a separate plane of stylisation."




References






Bibliography


Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.




External links


Raskolnikow at AllMovie
Raskolnikow at IMDb

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• Kejahatan dan Hukuman
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Robert Wiene
• Raskolnikow (film)
• Film adaptations of Crime and Punishment
• Crime and Punishment (disambiguation)
• Raskolnikov (disambiguation)
• Robert Wiene
• 1923 in film
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Pavel Pavlov (actor)
• Crime and Punishment
• Gregori Chmara