LUSHA NELSON
Genre: Portrait
Date: 1935
Location: Unknown
Format: 35mm
“In this theatrical image, actor Peter Lorre poses against a wall in the film adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment (1935), directed by Josef von Sternberg. Cornered by six accusing fingers, Lorre, who plays the role of protagonist Raskolnikov, wears a mask of dismay as he realises he has been captured for his crimes.
Lorre was an Austro Hungarian who fled the Nazis in 1933, and in London landed a major role in Alfred Hitchcock’s first version of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).
Latvian American Lusha Nelson (1907-38) photographed commercially, but was also well known for his documentation of social issues.” (E.C.)
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