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Jul 26, 2015 - 11:20 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Reportedly, director Menahem Golan began filming CRIME AND PUNISHMENT in 1993. The final film, a modern day adaptation of Dostoevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed, finally appeared on a theater screen--in Russia--in 2002. The film went straight to video in the U.S., even though it boasted a fine cast, including Crispin Glover, Vanessa Redgrave, John Hurt, and Theodore Bikel. Bikel played a character named "Captain Koch," which cannot be tied into any character in the novel. Interestingly, John Hurt also starred in a 1979 BBC three-part adaptation of "Crime and Punishment," which should not be confused with this film. Robert O. Ragland provided the score to the film, which has never seen a release.
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Jul 26, 2015 - 11:36 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Theodore Bikel's final feature film appearance (at age 83) was in the 2007 production THE LITTLE TRAITOR, based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz. The movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz (Ido Port), a militant yet sensitive eleven year old, wants nothing more than for the occupying British to get the hell out of his land. At one point in the film, Proffy ends up before a kangaroo court presided over by Bikel, in a cameo role as a local leader of the paramilitary Haganah. The film played in several film festivals, before ultimately receiving a limited U.S. theatrical release in 2009. In 2014, Bikel co-wrote a documentary about his own life--Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem.
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