Raskolnikow (film)

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
Directed byRobert Wiene
Produced byRobert Wiene[1]
Screenplay byRobert Wiene [1]
Based onCrime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Starring
CinematographyWilly Goldberger[1]
Production
company
Neumann-Film-Produktion GmbH[1]
Release date
3 November 1923[2]
CountryGermany

The film is characterised by Jason Buchanan of AllMovie as a German expressionist view of the story: a "nightmarish" avante-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
  1. "Raskolnikow". Filmportal.de. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  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 2013-06-29.
  5. Pulleine, Tim (June 1979). "Raskolnikov". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 46 no. 545. British Film Institute. p. 136.

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


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