Crime and Punishment (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Crime and Punishment |
| Original title | Rikos yes rangaistus |
| Country of production | Finland |
| original language | Finnish |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Aki Kaurismäki |
| script | Aki Kaurismäki, Pauli Pentti |
| production | Aki Kaurismäki, Mika Kaurismäki |
| music |
Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch , Franz Schubert |
| camera | Timo Salminen |
| cut | Veikko Aaltonen |
| occupation | |
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Crime and Punishment (original title: Rikos ja rangaistus) is the first feature film by Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki , released in 1983 . It is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Guilt and Atonement (1866).
action
Antti Rahikainen studies law and also works in a slaughterhouse. The film begins with the presentation of his work and shows for minutes without comment how Rahikainen and his colleagues process meat, clean the floor, etc. After work, Rahikainen goes to the apartment of the industrialist Kari Honkanen, who is celebrating his 50th birthday that day. Using the pretext of handing in a telegram, he gains access to the apartment. He tells Honkanen that he has come to kill him. When asked why, he replied "You will never find out" and shoots Honkanen. Rahikainen puts the dead man's valuables in a bag. When the confectioner Eeva, who was supposed to serve at the birthday party, enters the room, she is horrified and confronts Rahikainen. He immediately admits to having killed Honkanen and tells Eeva to call the police. She does that after Rahikainen leaves.
After Eeva's interrogation by the police, Rahikainen is suspected because Hokanen had killed his fiancée three years earlier while drunk, but was acquitted for lack of evidence. A few days after the murder, Rahikainen visits Eeva at her job in a pastry shop. She said she was questioned by the police and would have given his name if she had known him. “It's Rahikainen,” he says. In the following he also tells her his accommodation and tries to ensure that the police find him, which happens also. During the interrogation, which is later continued in the police station, Rahikainen remains cool; he answers the investigators' questions without emotion. Eeva is called in as a key witness and denies the question whether Rahikainen is the murderer. To cover up traces, Rahikainen locks Honkanen's valuables in a station locker and gives the key to a beggar. In doing so, he directs the police's interest to the beggar, who is now being questioned as a suspect.
However, Commissioner Pennanen and his colleagues observed Rahikainen and saw him get a forged passport. Therefore, he is questioned again, the police are self-confident and claim to know that Rahikainen was the murderer. At this very moment, the homeless person from the train station makes a confession.
Rahikainen and his colleague Nikander want to move to Sweden. At the last moment Rahikainen decides otherwise and returns to the police station. When asked how he could be helped, he flees. He sees Eeva on the street in front of the station, confesses his murder and is sentenced to eight years in prison. He wanted to kill a louse and became a louse himself. So the number of lice remained constant. The murder was part of a system, not Honkanen personally. Eeva wants to wait for Rahikainen's release, but he sends her away.
criticism
Aki Kaurismäki's debut film based on “Dostoyevsky's Guilt and Atonement” [sic!], Which already suggests the director's typical stylistic devices, but does not always integrate them harmoniously. Oscillating between crime thriller and existentialism study. "
Web links
- Crime and Punishment in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for Crime and Punishment . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 587 DVD).
- ^ Crime and Punishment. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 16, 2017 .