Crime and Punishment

1983 [FINNISH]

Crime / Drama

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 79%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 3653 3.7K

based on novel or book

Plot summary

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.

Director

Aki Kaurismäki Photo
Aki Kaurismäki

Top cast

Juuso Hirvikangas Photo
Juuso Hirvikangas as Man at the Police Station
Matti Pellonpää Photo
Matti Pellonpää as Nikander
Hannu Lauri Photo
Hannu Lauri as Department Head Heinonen
Harri Marstio Photo
Harri Marstio as Singer of the Restaurant Band
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
853.29 MB
1194*720
Finnish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 2
1.55 GB
1792*1080
Finnish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ricardojorgeramalho 7 / 10

Promising debut

Modern adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic novel, originally published in 1866.The novel is a classic of universal literature, which inspired philosophical, sociological and psychological thoughts in the second half of the 19th century and also in the 20th century, namely Nietzsche, Sartre, Freud, Orwell, Huxley, among others. It's no surprise that it had more than thirty film adaptations, between 1909 and 2019.This 1983 Finnish adaptation is practically Aki Kaurismäki's directorial debut (before this film he had only directed a musical documentary, in 1981, together with his brother Mika Kaurismäki, who here takes on the role of producer).It is a promising film, although it neither captures the depth of the novel (none of the adaptations do, obviously) nor shows, still fully developed, the Kaurismäki style, of which it already gives good indications, but only appears mature in the following film, Calamari Union. However, both have in common a taste for minimalist absurdity, which would become the Finnish director's trademark.An interesting work, mainly because it is the debut of an important director, but it ends up being too conventional, within the Finnish master's work as a whole.Still, it certainly deserves to be seen.
Reviewed by Ilenisaatio 10 / 10

A moody, thought-provoking film

This film was a positive surprise, compared to the general style films are made these days. It follows Dostoyevsky's novel's lines in a modern environment. The people were mostly very minimalistically and unemotionally potrayed, but still their thoughts and emotions could be read from their eyes and the way they stood, moved and paced their speech. The general feel of the surroundings is very oppressive, almost if seen through the eyes of the two main characters. Simply put, the film prunes all the extras away and concentrates on the ideas behind the story.The plot had even some surprising twists, and the ending is done so, that it made me wonder that maybe Kaurismäki has some personal experiences of such feels of guilt and isolation as the main male character. This film, even if it's done nearly 20 years ago, is more than fit to make us think about our current world, and the direction we are heading.
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