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[edit] Influence in popular culture

Dostoevsky has been characterized in several mediums, has been the subject of In the 1922 painting A Friends Reunion by Max Ernst depicting fellow surrealist painters and writers, Dostoevsky is also present having Max Ernst and Jean Paulhan sitting on his knees.

Dostoevsky has influenced In J.M. Coetzee's novel The Master of Petersburg the protagonist is a fictionalized version of Dostoevsky shown as entangled amidst the mystery of Ivanov's (a police official) murder.

• The Alfred Hitchcock film Rope is based loosely on Crime and Punishment and explores many of the same themes.

• The 2004 film The Machinist was influenced by Dostoevsky's work, especially The Double: A Petersburg Poem, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. In one scene in the film, star Christian Bale is seen reading a copy of The Idiot.

• Woody Allen's 2005 film Match Point borrows heavily from Crime and Punishment. At one point in the movie, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers's character is shown reading the novel.

• Japanese mangaka Osamu Tezuka's adaptation of Crime and Punishment uses Tezuka's 'actors' to portray a lighter side of the novel.