Penniless Raskolnikov, incensed at the injustice he sees all around him, kills and robs an old woman he believes no one will miss. But the psychological tactics of the police investigator and Raskolnikov’s own guilty conscience prove his undoing.
production details
UK | BBC Two | 2×90 minutes | Broadcast 12-13 February 2002
Writer: Tony Marchant
Novel: Dostoyevsky
Producer: David Snodin
Director: Julian Jarrold
cast
John Simm as Raskolnikov
Ian McDiarmid as Porfiry
Kate Ashfield as Dounia
Lara Belmont as Sonya Marmeladova
Mark Benton as Zosimov
Birgitta Bernhard as Landlady
Leo Bill as Drinker
Katrin Cartlidge as Katerina Ivanovna
Alice Connor as Polya
Shaun Dingwall as Razhumikin
David Haig as Luzhin
Martin Hancock as Koch
Philip Jackson as Marmaladov
Tim Potter as Nikolai
Nigel Terry as Svidrigailov
