Crime and Punishment

Poland2000animated30'Retrospektywa Piotra Dumały (2021)

A young man decides to rob and kill an old usurer. In this screening of a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, suggestive graphics are emphasised by expressive music by Janusz Hajdun. It is an adaptation of a literary work without a single word where the music determines the narration flow to a large extent. Dumała has dreamt about this adaptation for a long time and treated earlier films as exercises preceding this film adaptation. A Gentle Spirit taught him to seamlessly transform one image into another, while Franz Kafka – to develop action in a parallel manner on many platforms. The result was a film captivating the viewer with its atmosphere, on the one hand, and narration flow, on the other.