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Raskolnikove (Crispin Glover) is a struggling intellectual law student at Moscow University. The time is today, and Russia is facing the toughest economical revolution of the century. The Rubel, not able to maintain its strength and power within a nation suffering from the peak of poverty and crime, subcomes to the inevitable plague of sicknesses that surround the society of modern day Moscow.
During these hard times, Raskolnikove decides to publish an article in the students' magazine in which he expresses his ideas about the ubermesch, which is based on Niches Philosophy of some human beings are better than others, only they have the right to exist. When crime, even murder, is justified if it's done against the worthless. Raskolnikove's ideas lead him to kill an old pawnbroker, who he considers to be scum, in order to steal her fortune. But, John Hurt, the chief of the homicide police department in Moscow, who suspects the young law student, decides to launch an investigation and a cat and mouse.
Original Release
06/01/2002
Cast
Name | Character |
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Crispin Glover | Rodion Raskolnikov |
Vanessa Redgrave | Rodion's Mother |
John Hurt | Porfiry - Chief Investigator / Porfiry, chief investigator |
Margot Kidder | Mrs. Katerina Marmelodov |
John Neville | Marmeladov, Sonia's alcoholic father |
Sophie Ward | Dunia, Rodion's sister |
Richard Lynch | Peter Luzhin, Dunia's suitor |
Patricia Hayes | Alyonna Ivanovna, old pawnbroker / Alyonna Ivanovna |
Matt Servitto | Razumikhin, Rodion's friend |
Theodore Bikel | Captain Koch |
Directors
Writers
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Menahem Golan
Cast
Name | Character |
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Crispin Glover | Rodion Raskolnikov |
Vanessa Redgrave | Rodion's Mother |
John Hurt | Porfiry - Chief Investigator / Porfiry, chief investigator |
Margot Kidder | Mrs. Katerina Marmelodov |
John Neville | Marmeladov, Sonia's alcoholic father |
Sophie Ward | Dunia, Rodion's sister |
Richard Lynch | Peter Luzhin, Dunia's suitor |
Patricia Hayes | Alyonna Ivanovna, old pawnbroker / Alyonna Ivanovna |
Matt Servitto | Razumikhin, Rodion's friend |
Theodore Bikel | Captain Koch |
Clive Revill | Captain Zamyotov |
Avital Dicker | Sonia Marmeladov, prostitute / Sonia |
Connie Hair | Lizaveta Ivanovna, Alyonna's daughter |
Yehuda Efroni | Dimitri |
Eddie Bowz | Prokorov |
Sergey Steblov | Nikolai |
Vladimir Fyodorov | Short man |
Ron Perlman | Dusharo |
Guy D'Alema | Police Officer |
Dmitry Kuzin | EST security |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ivan Mendzheritskiy | Executive Producer |
Galina Tuchinsky | Executive Producer |
Evgeny Afineevsky | Executive Producer |
Menahem Golan | Producer |
Vladislav Dolzhenko | Producer |
Evgeny Afineevsky | Producer |