Raskolnikow (film)

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Raskolnikow
Directed by Robert Wiene
Screenplay byRobert Wiene [1]
Based on Crime and Punishment
1866 novel
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Produced byRobert Wiene [1]
Starring
Cinematography Willy Goldberger [1]
Production
company
Neumann-Film-Produktion GmbH [1]
Release date
  • 3 November 1923 (1923-11-03) [2]
CountryGermany

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]

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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]

Plot

Cast

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Raskolnikow". Filmportal.de . Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  2. 1 2 Uli & Schatzberg p.100
  3. ↑ Pulleine, Tim (June 1979). "Raskolnikov". Monthly Film Bulletin . Vol. 46, no. 545. British Film Institute. p. 135.
  4. ↑ Buchanan, Jason. "Raskolnikow". Allmovie. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 Pulleine, Tim (June 1979). "Raskolnikov". Monthly Film Bulletin . Vol. 46, no. 545. British Film Institute. p. 136.

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