Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions are necessary for the benifit of mankind, murders an old woman, who operates a crooked loaning house, as well as her sister, who made the mistake of visiting her at the wrong time. He is suspected of the crime, but somebody else confesses to the murder.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Gregori Chmara, Elisabeta Skulskaja, Alla Tarasova, Andrei Zhilinsky, Mikhail Tarkhanov, Mariya Germanova
Crew: Robert Wiene (Director), Willy Goldberger (Director of Photography), Hans Neumann (Producer), Andrej Andrejew (Art Direction), Robert Wiene (Writer), Fyodor Dostoevsky (Novel)
Country: Germany
Language: No Language
Studio: Leonardo-Film
Runtime: 142 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Oct 26, 1923
IMDb: 4.6
Keywords:expressionism, german expressionism
