Crime and Punishment
Rikos ja Rangaistus
Aki Kaurismäki
Rahikainen, a slaughterhouse worker, murders a dishonest business man. Aeva, who works in a nearby bakery, persuades him to turn himself in and pay for his crime... A transposition of Dostoïevski's novel into modern-day Finland.
With : Markku Toikka, Aino Seppo, Esko Nikkari, Hannu Lauri, Matti Pellonpää, Pentti Auer, Kari Sorvali
Screenplay : Aki Kaurismäki, Pauli Pentti d'après l'oeuvre éponyme de Fédor Dostoïevski
Image : Timo Salminen
Sound : Mikael Sievers, Matti Kuortti
Editing : Veikko Aaltonen
Screenplay : Aki Kaurismäki, Pauli Pentti d'après l'oeuvre éponyme de Fédor Dostoïevski
Image : Timo Salminen
Sound : Mikael Sievers, Matti Kuortti
Editing : Veikko Aaltonen
Production : Villealfa Film Productions
Distribution: Pyramide
Distribution: Pyramide
For his first feature-length film, "it might seem surprising that Kaurismäki chose one of the classics of literature, for which any adaptation is by nature hazardous. But as Kaurismäki likes to say, ‘if you're going to fail, why not fail dramatically?' (...) Kaurismäki underlines that any film adaptation of a literary work presupposes deleting aspects of the original. In this way, for Crime and Punishment, he was obliged to "do away with the psychology and focus only on the action, to put together dramatic sequences" and eliminate "Raskolnikov's monologues and small talk, because no one is able to know what goes on in the mind of a man like Raskolnikov." (S. Kyösola)