Crime and PunishmentCrime and Punishment

Based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Student Rodion Raskolnikov murders an old landlady and her sister to get away from his financial problems. However, his deed terrifies him and the investigation begins to close down on him. He meets a prostitute, Sonya, who convinces him to confess to the two murders. He is subsequently sentenced to punitive labor in Siberia, and Sonya follows him there.