Raskolnikow
Aided by the actors of the famous Moscow Art Theatre, on tour at the time in Germany, Robert Wiene adapted Dostoevsky's “Crime and Punishment” to the German Expressionist Cinema. Like Francis in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Raskolnikow is a tortured, paranoid figure, and the decor is used to reflect and evoke his inner state by means of distortion and stylization.