Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

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Release Date

12/2/1983

Runtime

93 mins

Overview

In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who accidentally arrived at the crime scene wants to follow him, but guilt and the tightening net of the police throw a shadow over their desperate love affair.

Status

Released

Original Language

Finnish

Budget

-

Revenue

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Homepage

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A grim adaptation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece that pivots from crime to the suffocating weight of conscience, following a desperate man pulled between guilt and a fleeting human connection. The tension lies not in suspense but in the slow crushing inevitability of moral reckoning.

Mood

MelancholicTenseBleak

Themes

CrimeLoveIsolation

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticDesaturated

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Graphic violence

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