by FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The BBC2 Classic Serial dramatised in three parts by JACK ITLMAN starring John Hurt , Sian Phillips Frank Middlemass Beatrix Lehmann
Part 1: St Petersburg 1860s
Isolated and poor, Raskolnikov, a student, finds no sense in life. He is sure of only one thing - truly great men are above the law in all ways. Finding himself deeply in debt, he plans to put his theory to the ultimate test.