Crime and Punishment
TITLE
Crime and Punishment
DIRECTOR
Aki Kaurismäki
COUNTRY
Finland
YEAR
1983
DURATION
93′
GENRE
Comedy, Drama
Crime and Punishment
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, set in modern Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Aki Kaurismäki
Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker. Both Aki and Mika are prolific film-makers, and together have been responsible for one-fifth of the total output of the Finnish film industry since the early 1980s, though Aki's work has found more favour abroad. His films are very short (he says a film should never run longer than 90 minutes, and many of his films are nearer 70), eccentric parodies of various genres (road movies, film noir, rock musicals), populated by lugubrious hard-drinking Finns and set to eclectic soundtracks, typically based around '50s rock'n'roll. In the 1990s he has made films in Britain (I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)) and France (The Bohemian Life (1992)).
- Director Aki Kaurismäki
- Screenplay Aki Kaurismäki, Pauli Pentti
- Cinematography Timo Salminen
- Editing Veikko Aaltonen
- Cast Markku Toikka, Aino Seppo, Esko Nikkari, Hannu Lauri
- Producer/s Mika Kaurismäki
- Production Company Villealfa Filmproductions
- Distributor/s The Match Factory, Euro Space, Finnkino
- Project Title Crime and Punishment
- Project Type Comedy, Drama
- Completion Date December 2, 1983
- Country of origin Finland
- Country of filming Finland
- Language Finnish
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
Aki Kaurismäki
Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker. Both Aki and Mika are prolific film-makers, and together have been responsible for one-fifth of the total output of the Finnish film industry since the early 1980s, though Aki's work has found more favour abroad. His films are very short (he says a film should never run longer than 90 minutes, and many of his films are nearer 70), eccentric parodies of various genres (road movies, film noir, rock musicals), populated by lugubrious hard-drinking Finns and set to eclectic soundtracks, typically based around '50s rock'n'roll. In the 1990s he has made films in Britain (I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)) and France (The Bohemian Life (1992)).
Jussi Awards
Best Screenplay, Best Debut Film, 1984
Tirana International Film Festival
Special Screening, 2022
