Crime and Punishment
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| - | ''Crime and Punishment'' focuses on the mental [[anguish]] and moral [[dilemma]]s of [[Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov]], an [[impoverished]] [[St. Petersburg]] [[student]] who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, [[unscrupulous]] [[pawnbroker]] for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of [[evil]]. | + | ''Crime and Punishment'' focuses on the mental [[anguish]] and moral [[dilemma]]s of [[Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov]], an [[impoverished]] [[St. Petersburg]] [[student]] who formulates and executes a plan to [[kill]] a hated, [[unscrupulous]] [[pawnbroker]] for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of [[evil]]. |
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Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866, and was later published in a single volume. Robert Bresson's Pickpocket is a loose adaptation of the novel which substitutes murder with the crime of pickpocketing.
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Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of evil.
Film adaptations
There have been many film adaptations of the novel. Some of the best-known are:
- Crime and Punishment (1935, starring Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold and Marian Marsh)
- Crime et Châtiment (1956, France directed by Georges Lampin, starring Lino Ventura and Jean Gabin)
- Eigoban Tsumi to Batsu (1953, manga by Tezuka Osamu, under his interpretation)
- Преступление и наказание (USSR, 1969, starring Georgi Taratorkin, Tatyana Bedova, Victoria Fyodorova) [1]
- Crime and Punishment (1979, television serial starring Timothy West, Vanessa Redgrave and John Hurt)
- Aki Kaurismäki's Rikos ja Rangaistus (1983; Crime and Punishment), the acclaimed debut film of the Finnish director with Markku Toikka in the lead role; the story is set in modern-day Helsinki.
- Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1998, a TV movie starring Patrick Dempsey, Ben Kingsley and Julie Delpy)
- Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000, an adaptation set in modern America and "loosely based" on the novel)
- Crime and Punishment (2002, starring Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave and Margot Kidder).
- Crime and Punishment another television serial (2002, starring John Simm as Raskolnikov and Ian McDiarmid as Petrovich)
