Crime and Punishment

Adaptations

There have been over 25 film adaptations of Crime and Punishment. They include:

  • Raskolnikow (aka Crime and Punishment, 1923) directed by Robert Wiene
  • Crime and Punishment (1935 American film) starring Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold and Marian Marsh
  • Crime and Punishment (1970 film) Soviet film starring Georgi Taratorkin, Tatyana Bedova, Vladimir Basov, Victoria Fyodorova) dir. Lev Kulidzhanov
  • Crime and Punishment (1979 TV series) is a three-part 1979 television serial produced by the BBC, starring John Hurt as Raskolnikov and Timothy West as Porfiry Petrovich.
  • Crime and Punishment (1983 film) (original title, Rikos ja Rangaistus), the first movie by the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki, with Markku Toikka in the lead role. The story has been transplanted to modern-day Helsinki, Finland.
  • Without Compassion (1994 Peruvian film) directed by Francisco Lombardi, starring Diego Bertie and Adriana Dávila Franke
  • Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000), an adaptation set in modern America and "loosely based" on the novel
  • Crime and Punishment (2002 film), starring Crispin Glover and Vanessa Redgrave
  • Crime and Punishment (2002 TV film), a 2002 television serial produced by the BBC, starring John Simm as Raskolnikov and Ian McDiarmid as Porfiry Petrovich.
  • Crime and Punishment (2007 Russian TV series) (ru), a 2007 television serial directed by Dmitry Svetozarov, starring Vladimir Koshevoy as Raskolnikov. Aired on Channel One Russia.

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