Crime and Punishment - Film Adaptations

Film Adaptations

There have been over 25 film adaptations of Crime and Punishment. They include:

• Raskolnikow (aka Crime and Punishment) (1923, directed by Robert Wiene)
• Crime and Punishment (1935, starring Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold and Marian Marsh)
• Eigoban Tsumi to Batsu (1953, manga by Tezuka Osamu, under his interpretation)
• Crime and Punishment (1970 film) (Soviet film, 1970, starring Georgi Taratorkin, Tatyana Bedova, Vladimir Basov, Victoria Fyodorova) dir. Lev Kulidzhanov
• Rikos ja Rangaistus (1983; Crime and Punishment), the first movie by the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki, with Markku Toikka in the lead role. The story has been transplanted to modern-day Helsinki, Finland.
• Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000, an adaptation set in modern America and "loosely based" on the novel)
• Crime and Punishment (2002 film), 2002, starring Crispin Glover and Vanessa Redgrave.
• Match Point (2005), a film by Woody Allen borrows many elements from the novel, in fact it is loosely based on it (although the main character ends up free). In the movie the name of Dostoyevsky is referred to in several occasions.
• Crime and Punishment: A Falsified Romance (manga), 2007, by Naoyuki Ochiai, a retelling of the novel set in modern day Japan. The main character is a NEET, and the criminals he tracks are a gang of high school girls practicing enjo kōsai.
• Paranoid Park (2007), a film by Gus van Sant based on the novel of the same name. That author has said that the book is a kind of retelling of Crime and Punishment in a young adult fiction setting.