Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

In this darkly poetic animation, the Polish filmmaker Piotr Dumala offers a highly personal interpretation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic novel, Crime and Punishment. “My film is like a dream,“ Dumala said in 2007. “It is as if someone has read Crime and Punishment and then had a dream about it.“ Dumala’s version takes place only at night. The story is told expressionistically, without dialogue and with an altered flow of time. The complex and multi-layered novel is pared down to a few central characters