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The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov

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Language
  
German

Country
  
Germany

Director
  
Erich Engels Fedor Ozep

Release date
  
6 February 1931 (1931-02-06)

The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov (German: Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff) is a 1931 German drama film directed by Erich Engels and Fedor Ozep, starring Fritz Kortner and Anna Sten. It tells the story of a lieutenant who is suspected of having murdered his father. The film is based on motifs from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov.

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Cast

  • Fritz Kortner as Dimitri Karamasoff
  • Anna Sten as Gruschenka
  • Fritz Rasp as Smerdjakoff
  • Bernhard Minetti as Iwan Karamasoff
  • Max Pohl as Fedor Karamasoff
  • Hanna Waag as Katja
  • Fritz Alberti as Gerichtspräsident
  • Werner Hollmann as Der Pole
  • Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel as Fenja

    • Production

    The film was produced through Terra-Film AG. Filming took place from 22 October to 24 November 1930.

    Reception

    The British film critic Raymond Durgnat wrote in a 1993 article about Ozep for Film Dope: "The Karamazov film is a tour de force of stylistic eclecticism: expressionist acting (Kortner), dynamic angles, Russian editing, marathon tracking shots. It's a real showpiece of formalism geared to psycho-lyrical ends, exactly as Eisenstein intended, except that Dostoievskian soul-torments replace Leninist collectivism to which the 'official' montage-masters tuned their lyres."

    References

    The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov Wikipedia
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