Film adaptations of Crime and Punishment

There have been at least 30 film adaptations of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 novel Crime and Punishment .

List of films

• 1909: Prestuplenie i nakazanie (Crime and Punishment), 1909 Russian film directed by V. Goncharov.
• 1913: Prestuplenie i nakazanie (Crime and Punishment), 1913 Russian film directed by I. Vronsky ^[1]
• 1915: Prestuplenie i nakazanie (Crime and Punishment), 1915 Russian film.
• 1917: Crime and Punishment, 1917 US silent film directed by Lawrence B. McGill and starring Derwent Hall Caine. ^[2]
• 1919: Rodion Raskolnikow, 1919 Russian film.
• 191?: Raskolnikow, 1910s Russian film.
• 1923: Raskolnikow (aka Crime and Punishment), German film made in 1923, directed by Robert Wiene.
• 1924: Paper Parinam, 1924 Indian production. ^[3]
• 1935: Crime and Punishment , directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold, Marian Marsh, Douglass Dumbrille, Gene Lockhart, and Mrs Patrick Campbell.
• 1935: Crime and Punishment , 1935 French film directed by Pierre Chenal. ^[4]
• 1940: Prestuplenie i nakazanie (Crime and Punishment), 1940 Soviet film directed by Pavel Kolomoytsev ^[5]
• 1945: Crime and Punishment , 1945 Swedish film directed by Hampe Faustman. ^[6]
• 1951: Crimen y castigo , 1951 Mexican production directed by Fernando de Fuentes. ^[7]
• 1956: Crime and Punishment , French film of 1956, directed by Georges Lampin and starring Lino Ventura and Jean Gabin.
• 1957: 'El gharima waal ikab, 1957 Egyptian production in Arabic, directed by Ibrahim Emara. ^[8]
• 1958: Phir Subha Hogi , 1958 Hindi film directed by Ramesh Saigal
• 1959: Pickpocket , 1959 French film directed by Robert Bresson
• 1959: Crime and Punishment U.S.A. , 1959 American film, directed by Denis Sanders, adapted by Walter Newman and starring Mary Murphy, Frank Silvera, Marian Seldes, Eve McVeagh, and George Hamilton (his first credited film role).
• 1970: Crime and Punishment , 1970 Soviet film, starring Georgi Taratorkin, Tatyana Bedova, Vladimir Basov, and Victoria Fyodorova, and directed by Lev Kulidzhanov.
• 1971: Crime et châtiment, 1971 French film directed by Stellio Lorenzi, starring François Marthouret and Jean Topart ^[9]
• 1973: ' Neramu Siksha , 1973 Indian production in Telugu, directed by K. Vishwanath. ^[10]
• 1974: ' Jurm Aur Sazaa , 1974 Indian film in Hindi, directed by Nisar Ahmad Ansari. ^[11]
• 1979: Crime and Punishment, 1979 television serial starring Timothy West and John Hurt.
• 1983: Rikos ja Rangaistus (1983; aka Crime and Punishment), the debut film of the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki, with Markku Toikka in the lead role; the story is set in modern-day Helsinki.
• 1987: Elu Suttina Kote (Seven rounded fort), Indian Kannada-language film directed by Gowrishankar, with Ambareesh in the lead role. The film is loosely based on Crime and Punishment and enjoys a classic status in Kannada cinema industry.
• 1994: Sin Compasión, 1994 adaptation of the novel, directed by Francisco Lombardi and set in Lima, Peru.
• 1994: Zločin i kazna (Crime and Punishment), the name of two separate 1994 Croatian productions, one directed by Dražen Žarković, ^[12] the other by Jasna Zastavniković. ^[13]
• 1996: The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime, 1996 US film starring James Garner and directed by David Chase, was loosely based on the novel. ^[14]
• 1998: Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment , 1998 TV movie starring Patrick Dempsey, Ben Kingsley and Julie Delpy.
• 2000: Crime and Punishment in Suburbia , 2000 adaptation, set in modern America and "loosely based" on the novel.
• 2000: Zbrodnia i Kara, 2000 Polish film directed by Piotr Dumała. ^[15]
• 2002: Crime and Punishment , 2002 adaptation, starring Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave and Margot Kidder.
• 2004: Nina , 2004 Brazilian loose adaptation of the novel, directed by Heitor Dhalia and starring Guta Stresser. ^[16]
• 2012: Student , 2012 Kazakhstani film directed by Darezhan Omirbaev. ^[17]
• 2013: Norte: Hangganan ng Kasaysayan known internationally as Norte, the End of History , 2013 film by Filipino Director, Lav Diaz.
• 2016: Crime & Punishment, independent Australian feature film by producer/director, Andrew O'Keefe. ^[18]
• 2018: The Bridge of Sleep, Iranian film directed by Oktay Baraheni.
• 2019: A Shadow Confined, a Bulgarian surrealist short film loosely based on the novel, produced and directed by Asparuh Frangov.

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18. "Crime & Punishment 2016". The Screen Guide. Sydney: Screen Australia. 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2025.