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Crime and PunishmentOn the coverSaint Petersburg by Night, Maxim Vorobiev
Crime and Punishment
In the stifling slums of St. Petersburg, the destitute student Raskolnikov talks himself into a terrible theory, that an extraordinary man may step over moral law, and then must live with what he does. A feverish descent into guilt and the hope of grace.
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A psychological thriller a century ahead of its time, you live inside a guilty mind so completely it becomes your own. Tense, claustrophobic, and finally strangely tender.
SettingSt. Petersburg, 1860s
St. Petersburg in a heatwave: a city of pawnshops, taverns, and crowded tenements where ruined students, clerks, and the desperate poor live cheek by jowl. Radical new theories about morality were in the air.
On screen & beyond
- Lev Kulidzhanov’s Soviet film (1970)
- Josef von Sternberg’s Hollywood film (1935)