Crime and punishment

Believing he can commit the perfect crime, a man robs and murders an elderly pawnbroker. He soon finds himself engaged in a battle of wits with a policeman determined to wring a confession out of him.

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"Prestuplenie i nakazanie"@en
"Dostoievsky's "crime and punishment""
"Ho ucciso"@it
"Crimen y castigo"@en
"Crime et châtiment"

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"Believing he can commit the perfect crime, a man robs and murders an elderly pawnbroker. He soon finds himself engaged in a battle of wits with a policeman determined to wring a confession out of him."@en
"A former law student kills an old pawnbroker and is driven mad by guilt."@en
"Roderich Raskolnikov, brillante studente universitario ossessionato dall'idea del superuomo e del gesto perfetto, uccide una vecchia usuraia. L'ispettore Porfirij non riesce a dimostrare la sua colpevolezza, ma lo studente, spinto dall'amore di una povera prostituta e deluso nei suoi ideali si costituisce per espiare cristianamente la sua colpa. (Mereghetti)."@it
"Directed by Josef Von Sternberg this is the first English language version of Dostoyevsky's novel of obsession, murder and guilt. Peter Lorre stars as the crimonology student turned murderer and Edward Arnold as the detective who breaks him. This is an example of Hollywood tackling the great Russian epic and achieving it with style."@en
"Fiction. Drame. Une vieille prêteuse sur gages est tuée par un brillant étudiant. Torturé par les remords, le jeune homme cherche la clémence. Avec Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh, Robert Allen, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Edward Arnold."
"Adaptación de la novela de Dostoievski sobre un estudiante que cree tener impunidad para matar a una desagradable prestamista."
"A densely atmospheric, moodily photographed melodrama that never quite succeeds in entering the soul of the novel. Peter Lorre takes the part of the arrogant sociopath Raskolnikov who murders a cruel pawnbroker and is convinced that he can get away with the murder because he is above guilt and bad conscience. Edward Arnold received top billing as Police Chief Porfiry who slowly breaks down Rasklnikov's resolve. The Columbia film was released almost simultaneously with a French version directed by Pierre Chenal and did not compare favourably, mostly because of the perfomances and the liberties S. K. Lauren's script took with the story."@en