"Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff" or "The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov" is a German black-and-white film from 1931 and if you look at the year, you will see that this was a time when silent films slowly transitioned into sound and here we have one example of it. Even if this movie is already 85 years old, it is still far from the very early works of scary German cinema. A duo of writers and directors made this, namely Erich Engels and Fyodor Otsep and it is among their more known works. This also has to do with Fyodor Dostoevsky, a really famous writer, being the one who wrote the base material and he was only half a century dead when this film came out. The movie runs for approximately 90 minutes, so it is not among the shortest or longest from the era. I personally would say that I have seen better and worse films from the 1930s and from Germany around that era, but it shows that there were all kinds of movies as this one here is something entirely different compared to the mountain films for example. All in all, I give it a thumbs down.
