Without Compassion

Sin compasión

France, Mexico, Peru

1994

120 Min

Color

1.85:1

Spanish

Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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SCR Augusto Cabada, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

CAST Diego Bertie, Adriana Dávila, Jorge Chiarella, Hernán Romero, Marcello Rivera, Mariella Trejos, Ricardo Fernández

SOUND Daniel Padilla

Cannes (Un Certain Regard), Sundance (The Pan American Highway), Rotterdam (Hubert Bals Fund), Toronto

Synopsis

A tormented philosophy student, a teenage prostitute who supports her ne’er-do-well father, a heartless landlady, and an intelligent, tenacious police investigator are the principal players in this adaptation of Dostoevsky’s classic novel Crime and Punishment, set in the slums of contemporary Lima. –Inbaseline

Director

Francisco J. Lombardi

Francisco José Lombardi (born 3 August 1947) is a Peruvian film director, producer and screenwriter. He has directed 17 films since 1977. He received the Silver Shell for Best Director in 1985 for his film The Time of the Hero based on the novel La ciudad y los perros by Mario Vargas Llosa. His film Without Compassion was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. —wikipedia