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NBC and veteran producer tackle a literary masterpiece with echoes of the present day.
From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19981006
Author:Williams, Wendy J.
When prolific producer Robert Halmi Sr. decided to transform "Crime and Punishment" into an NBC television movie, he only suspected the widespread modern reverberations of this 19th century Russian tale.
Fyodor Dostoevsky's dense literary masterpiece tells of a man who murders because, "Great men do terrible things to bring about a better world." David Stevens, who adapted the book to the small screen, compares Raskolnikov to convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
A recent National Public Radio report on the collapse of the Russian economy described a widow who ...
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