Crime and Punishment (Episode 1) (1970) movie

Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention through normal procedures (he was the victim’s client), but his outbursts make him the prime suspect of the clever Porfiry. Meanwhile, life swirls around Raskolnikov: his mother and sister come to the city followed by two older men seeking his sister’s hand; he meets a drunken clerk who is then killed in a traffic accident, and he falls in love with the man’s daughter, Sonia, a young prostitute. She urges him to confess, promising to follow him to Siberia. Will he accept responsibility?

Genres: Drama
Production Co.: Gorky Film Studio

Directed by Lev Kulidzhanov
Writing Credits: Fyodor Dostoevsky (novel), Nikolai Figurovsky (screenplay), Lev Kulidzhanov (screenplay)
Music by Mikhail Ziv
Cinematography by Vyacheslav Shumskiy

Cast:
Georgiy Taratorkin as Raskolnikov
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as Porfiry Petrovitch
Tatyana Bedova as Sonya Marmeladova
Viktoriya Fyodorova as Avdotya Romanovna
Yefim Kopelyan as Svidrigailov
Yevgeni Lebedev as Marmeladov
Mayya Bulgakova as Yekaterina Ivanovna
Irina Gosheva as Pulkheriya Aleksandrovna
Vladimir Basov as Luzhin
Aleksandr Pavlov as Razumikhin
Lyubov Sokolova as Yelizaveta Ivanovna
Inna Makarova as Nastasya
Valeriy Nosik as Zametov
Yuri Medvedev as Lebeziatnikov
Evgeniy Lazarev as Zosimov
Yuriy Sarantsev as Lieutenant ‘Powder’
Yuri Volkov as Nikodim Fomich
Aladdin Abbasov as Gorodovoy
Vladimir Belokurov
Sergey Nikonenko
Dzidra Ritenberga
Luiza Ivanovna
Ivan Ryzhov