C&P Films

[Eric Laursen]

What about Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (not really an adaptation, but interesting).  Also note Allen's Love and Death.

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From:   RUSSELL VALENTINO[SMTP:russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU]
Sent:   Monday, January 29, 2001 1:45 PM
To:     SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject:        C&P Films

Thanks to those of you who sent me suggestions of adapted Crimes and
Punishments. I forward your (edited) notes for those on the list who are
interested.

Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000) Directed by Rob
Schmidt.  A young woman raped by her step-father murders him
with her jock boyfriend's help. The "Raskolnikov" character is a
girl and the "Sonia" a boy. A fair amount of sex and gore.

C & P (1998 miniseries, NBC), with Patrick Dempsey as
Raskolnikov, Ben Kingsley as Porfity. Well produced, but
disappointingly written (the whole novel crammed into 2 hours)

C & P (1979 miniseries, made in the UK)

Prestupleniye i nakazaniye (1969) Directed by Lev Kulidzhanov. Shot on
location
with a maximum of authenticity. Great actors and acting.  (The one
drawback for classroom use-- its length--close to 4 hrs [221 min.]!)

Crime & Punishment, USA (1959) Directed by Denis Sanders.
Apparently, another loose americanization, like C&P in
Suburbia. (The tagline is "These are the Young... and the Wanton
...the Beat ...and the Bad!")

Crime and Punishment (1935) Directed by Josef von Sternberg,
with Peter Lorre as Raskolnikov. With trite "Hollywood ending"; Sonia
offers to run off to America with Raskolnikov.

Crime and Punishment (1917) silent. Directed by Lawrence B.
McGill.

Crime and Punishment, (1935) French. Directed by Pierre Chenal, starring
Pierre Blanchar as Raskolnikov and Harry Baur as Porfiry Petrovich. A
brooding, expressionist piece.

Thanks to Marcus Levitt for this reference to the movie web site:
<http://us.imdb.com/>

Russell Valentino
Associate Professor
Department of Russian
University of Iowa
tel 319 353-2193
fax 319 353-2424
russell-valentino at uiowa.edu

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