The hero of the famous novel of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and punishment", Rodion Raskolnikov, imagines himself as a special person, a "Russian Napoleon", who is allowed to commit murder for the sake of the future happiness of all people, kills the old lady. This is the story of the mid-nineteenth century.
Now, in 2001, journalist and writer Pyotr Kozhevnikov - our contemporary - decides to follow the literary and geographical path of the murderer Rodion Raskolnikov.
The hero is immersed in the real environment of modern St.
Petersburg.
The camera is following him.
We see all the events in two planes: objectively occurring and in the Writer's perception.
P. Kozhevnikov (synchronously).
P. Kozhevnikov walks down the street in St.
Petersburg.
He approaches the house where Dostoevsky lived and where the novel "Crime and Punishment" was written.
A plaque on the house.
One of the courtyards of St.
Petersburg, the so-called stone bag.
There are bodies of the dead on the asphalt near one of the houses.
A police officer (synchronously).
Examination of the dismembered body.
A man is being led out of the entrance of the house in handcuffs.
Dismantling of the lion sculpture on the Lion Bridge.
Detainees in the courtroom.
Court session (synchronously).
The judge (synchronously).
People on the street.
The crowd is going to an event.
Locations: St. Petersburg [814]
The detainee (synchronously).
Inspection of the crime scene.
Excursions to the places of the heroes of "Crime and punishment" (synchronously).
The faces of schoolchildren.
P. Kozhevnikov is walking down the street.
People on the street.
The corpse of a man on the floor.
The killer (synchronously).
A patient of a special type psychiatric hospital (
synchronously).
Psychiatric hospital patients (criminals) on a walk.
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The priest (synchronously).
The dining room in the psychiatric hospital.
St.
Isaac's Cathedral.
The bodies of the dead on the asphalt, covered with a sheet.
Live footage, the killer at the crime scene.
Locations: St. Petersburg [814]
Seasons: Autumn [826]
P. Kozhevnikov is walking down the street.
P. Kozhevnikov goes through the arch, approaches the front door of the house where the old woman lived.
The passage of the stairs.
A young man, a murderer (synchronously).
The grave of F.Dostoevsky.
Infant baptism.
Petersburg from a bird's eye view.
The guide (synchronously about Raskolnikov).
The painted walls.
The hand inserts the cassette into the VCR.
Tanners with children.
Locations: St. Petersburg [814]