Yuri Moroz/Colibri Studio production, Central Partnership, 2009ĭostoevsky scrutinizes the soul of each character, be it the terrible Fyodor Karamazov or the emotionally unstable Mitya Karamazov, painting quite a grim portrait of the Russian national character. Pavel Derevyanko, Sergei Gorobchenko, Aleksandr Golubev, Anatoly Bely and Sergei Koltakov in 'The Brothers Karamazov'. “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love,” Dostoevsky stated in ‘The Brothers Karamazov’, his last unsettling novel with the who-done-it-plot.
But those “accursed questions” are the ones that break the ice, really. No one has ever mastered the art of posing questions of right and wrong better than Dostoevsky. Per Dostoevsky, forgiveness is possible through suffering. The sun has before all to be the sun,” Porfiry Petrovich says encouragingly. The writer cherished hope that Raskolnikov can expiate his sin. A man, according to Dostoevsky, is not someone endowed with reason and logic, but one who deliberately goes off the deep end. Dostoevsky is convinced that without weaving one’s way through temptation and terrible hardships, without running against moral absolutes, it’s impossible to repent. And yet, the million-dollar question is what are the existential consequences of the crime and how to live with it. We know from the very beginning who killed whom, where, when, why - and even how. ‘Crime and Punishment’ is Dostoevsky’s most perfect crime novel with a psychological twist. He was a true original who pushed the boundaries of the genre, and of human expectation and ambition, too. In retrospect, his crime proves to be worse than the creepiest nightmare.ĭostoevsky never sought to be a crowd pleaser. “Am I a trembling creature or have I the right,” he unceremoniously asks himself, trying to figure out whether he is “a louse, like everyone else, or a human being?” It’s a done deal when the 23-year-old murders an old pawnbroker lady with an axe, for the sake of a moral experiment. Rodion Raskolnikov is a morally ambiguous young man, who allows himself to shed “blood according to conscience”.
Vladimir Koshevoi stars as Rodion Raskolnikov.ĭmitry Svetozarov/The ASDS Film Studio, 2007
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