Raskolnikow is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Robert Wiene.[1] The film is an adaptation of the 1866 novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.[3]
| Raskolnikow | |
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| Directed by | Robert Wiene |
| Screenplay by | Robert Wiene [1] |
| Based on | Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Produced by | Robert Wiene[1] |
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| Cinematography | Willy Goldberger[1] |
Production company | Neumann-Film-Produktion GmbH[1] |
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| Country | Germany |
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.[4] It premiered at the Mozartsaal in Berlin.[2]
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."[5] 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)."[5] 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."[5]
References
Bibliography
- Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.
