The setting is St. Petersburg in Czarist Russia, in the days just prior to the Russian Revolution.
Rascalnikov is a child from a poor family. He murders an old lady who
is a loan shark and flees with her valuables. Judge Polifili, who has
been assigned to the case, immediately suspects Rascalnikov because he
had recently submitted an essay in a magazine claiming that "the world
is divided into those who are geniuses and those who are not. A genius
may commit murder but is not guilty if it is for the good of the world."
At first, Rascalnikov feels invincible and confident that he can elude
the law, but the Judge Polifili obstinately persists in his
investigation, and gradually Rascalnikov comes to feel cornered.
In the meantime, Sonya, a prostitute, frantically tries to persuade Rascalnikov to turn himself in.
All this takes place on the eve of the Russian Revolution.
1953.
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