Crime and Punishment (1979)★ 7.4/10
- Drama
Directed by: Michael Darlow
Written by: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jack Pulman
A brilliant student tests his morality by killing an elderly woman in 1800s St. Petersburg. As a detective cleverly investigates, guilt consumes the conflicted young man's conscience.
- Original title
- Crime and Punishment
- Storyline
- This mini-series is the ultimate psychological thriller with a powerful sense of guilt and retribution, set in St. Petersburg in the second half of the nineteenth century. Raskolnikov is a highly intelligent and striking young student who decides to test his courage and integrity by killing a mean old woman who he is sure nobody will miss. But his crime goes seriously awry and, although there's no clear evidence against him, wily investigator Porfiry sets up a complex series of traps, encounters and conversations which slowly but inexorably allow Raskolnikov to incriminate himself, and eventually confess. Raskolnikov is young, impassioned, lonely, and lost. Despite being a murderer, he is a man possessed by both good and evil who cannot escape his own conscience and his inevitable punishment.
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 232
- Companies
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Masterpiece Theatre, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
- Release dates
- GB May 22, 1979
- US September 28, 1980
- NL February 24, 1981