KantTheaterBerlin: Schuld und Sühne von Fjodor Dostojewski

The poor student Raskolnikov believes he has committed the perfect murder when he kills a greedy old pawnbroker. He believes that great men are permitted to destroy “lives unworthy of life” in order to promote “lives worthy of life.” But he hasn’t reckoned with the astute investigating magistrate Porfiry, who, despite a lack of evidence, continues to corner him. In a stage adaptation for the KantTheaterBerlin, Anette Daugardt and Uwe Neumann took the novel by Russian author Fyodor M. Dostoevsky—published in 1866—as their source material and turned it into a gripping play. Staying closely faithful to the original text, they limit themselves to a detailed description of the murder and the interrogation scene in which the crime is finally brought to light.

By and starring Anette Daugardt and Uwe Neumann

Since 2003, the KantTheaterBerlin has been staging contemporary works and classics in its own modernized adaptations in an intimate theater setting.

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