Why should you read “Crime and Punishment”? - Alex Gendler
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What drives someone to kill in cold blood? What goes through the murderer’s mind? And what kind of a society breeds such people? Over 150 years ago Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky took these questions up in what would become one of the best-known works of Russian literature: “Crime and Punishment.” Alex Gendler digs into the classic novel's exploration of alienation, morality and redemption.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Alex Gendler
- Narrator
- Addison Anderson
- Storyboard Artist
- Sasha Dudka
- Illustrator
- Nikita Bondarenko, Victor Zhuravliov
- Animator
- Denis Bousygin, Alex Bohdan, Max Kotliar
