Raskolnikow | |
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Directed by | Robert Wiene |
Screenplay by | Robert Wiene [1] |
Based on |
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Produced by | Robert Wiene [1] |
Starring |
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Cinematography | Willy Goldberger [1] |
Production company | Neumann-Film-Produktion GmbH
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Release date |
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Country | Germany |
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]
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]
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]
Raskolnikow | |
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Directed by | Robert Wiene |
Screenplay by | Robert Wiene [1] |
Based on |
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Produced by | Robert Wiene [1] |
Starring |
|
Cinematography | Willy Goldberger [1] |
Production company | Neumann-Film-Produktion GmbH
[1] |
Release date |
|
Country | Germany |
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]
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]
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]