Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention through normal procedures (he was the victim's client), but his outbursts make him the prime suspect of the clever Porfiry. Meanwhile, life swirls around Raskolnikov: his mother and sister come to the city followed by two older men seeking his sister's hand; he meets a drunken clerk who is then killed in a traffic accident, and he falls in love with the man's daughter, Sonia, a young prostitute. She urges him to confess, promising to follow him to Siberia. Will he accept responsibility?
Released: Sep 28, 1970
Runtime: 221 minutes
Genre: Drama
Stars: Georgi Taratorkin, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Viktoriya Fyodorova, Yevgeni Lebedev, Vladimir Basov, Aleksandr Pavlov
Crew: Lev Kulidzhanov (Director), Fyodor Dostoevsky (Novel), Lev Kulidzhanov (Screenplay), Nikolai Figurovsky (Screenplay), Vyacheslav Shumskiy (Director of Photography), Mikhail Ziv (Original Music Composer)