Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment (Film in English)

[Sohail Abdullah]

Thank you for the feedback.

I became interested in the film after reading the novel, which i did a
few years back. I am from Pakistan and here we do not have much of
this kind of work in film. In the cold era of marshal laws most of the
times, russian literature was banned and last year with a friend of
mine when we arranged the celebrations of Dostoevsky's birth
anniversary, even the Russian Ambassador was very much pleased to know
that, as it was the first time someone was going to celebrate
Dostoevsky here in Pakistan. Back in 80's ''The Ediot'' and ''Crime
and Punishment'' were banned by the government due to some of the
politically created reasons using the religion as a shield. We even
staged a few of the dialogue sessions from Crime and Punishment and
Brothers Karamazov in that evening that we celebrated. Situation has
gone very good now and while I was looking for material on the web for
that particular event i became aware of that list through some
googling as I do not know any russian language and it was a bit hard
for me to get to the best of the comments on russsian that is not in
russian in those times. Even the famous Pushkin speach was hard to
find for me as we here were very much curious about that. Then someone
helped me here with scanned version of the speech.

I really appreciate the response here. The DVD is quite expensive as
compared to the pirated market that is currently so much active here
in this region but i will definitely get one through the net or some
other sources.

Once again, thank you for all the response in this regard. I am all
excited to find some visual version of this particular piece of
writing as i find it very much challenging for any director to portray
the Raskonlinkov and the happenings.

In  Einstein's words "Dostoevsky is the only scientist, I have any
thing to learn from.''

Regards and bless you all
Sohail

On 10/19/06, tim dukes <redtaperecorder at gmail.com> wrote:
> So strange that this thread should come up today since I just rented 'Crime
> and Punishment' last night!
>
> I have the newly restored 1969 Russian versian directed by Lev Kulidzhanov.
> Even though I'm watching it in the Russian language w/ English subtitles,
> the newest DVD version does provide you w/ the option of viewing an
> English dubbed version.  It seems like a good translation:  I watched it for
> about 5 minutes before deciding to watch it w/ subtitles instead...
>
> The casting for the film is excellent -- the film portrays the characters in
> a way that I envisioned them when I first read the book.  I also think it
> helps that the actors are relatively unknown to me -- it allowed me to
> immerse myself more into the plot and characters, to actually see them as
> the people they were meant to play.  I find that sometimes star power can
> outshine the story...
>
> Anyway, here's the link in case you're interested...
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Crime-Punishment/dp/B0009S2KFG/sr=8-9/qid=1161275594/ref=pd_bbs_9/002-5422862-1175236?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
>
> By the way, what prompted me to seek out this film in the first place was
> the fact that I'd just recently seen a film by Robert Bresson called
> 'Pickpocket' which is based loosely on 'Crime & Punishment', except the
> protagonist is a pickpocket instead of an axe murderer.  That one is also
> highly recommended...
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim
>
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