Crime and Punishment

Year: 1935

Runtime: 107 mins

Language: French

Director: Pierre Chenal

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Chenal’s adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel brings the story to the screen with Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur heading the cast. Its visual style, marked by stark lighting and angular sets, shows the clear influence of German Expressionism and anticipates the lyrical tone of poetic realism that would shape French cinema in the years that followed.

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