Disappointing Soviet Film
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —L'opynshl) VENICE, Aug. 24.
A three-hour Russian-lan-guage film of Dostoyevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment” has been received with disappointment at the thirtyfirst Venice Film Festival. Critics were hopeful that the film, directed by Lev Kulidjanov, might come up to the standard of the two-part version of “War and Peace” which has been well received in Europe. But most spectators felt that it neither succeeded in re-reading the text with modern eyes nor in discovering anything new in the work.
Tomorrow the festival will present the Italo-French production “The Seven-Headed Lion” and the Finnish picture “Summer Revolt.”
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32385, 26 August 1970, Page 15
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