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.
What were the contemporary philosophies that Dostoevsky was responding to?
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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
- Art Director Marianna Murashko
- Producer Anna Dolzhenko
- Composer Stephen LaRosa
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Fact-Checker Rebekah Barnett
