Crime and Punishment (1956 film)

Crime and Punishment
Directed byGeorges Lampin
Screenplay byCharles Spaak
(scenario et dialogues de)
Based onFyodor Dostoevsky
(as Dostoïevsky)
(inspiré du roman de)
Produced byJules Borkon
StarringJean Gabin
Marina Vlady
Ulla Jacobsson
Bernard Blier
Robert Hossein
CinematographyClaude Renoir
Edited byEmma Le Chanois
Music byMaurice Thiriet
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Champs-Élysées Productions
Distributed byPathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date
  • 4 December 1956 (1956-12-04)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office1 782 212 admissions (France)[1]

Crime and Punishment (French: Crime et Châtiment) is a 1956 French crime film based on the eponymous 1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Plot

Proud of his position in society and of his intelligence, René Brunel believes that bourgeois notions of morality do no apply to him. To prove his point he murders an old woman in cold blood.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Lino Ventura Box Office Figures". Box Office Story.


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