In Film
In film he was portrayed for the first time by Grigori Chmara (1923) in the silent adaptation by Robert Wiene, Peter Lorre (1935) in the Hollywood version (Josef von Sternberg) and by John Simm (2002), Crispin Glover (2002) and Ilya Kremnov (2005). The character of Michel in Robert Bresson's Pickpocket (1959) is based on Raskolnikov. Paul Schrader who wrote Taxi Driver (1976) was in turn inspired by Bresson's Michel character to create Travis Bickle, Robert de Niro's antihero.
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