Filmed in 1993.
When production began in February 1993, Ron Perlman was listed as a cast member, but he doesn't appear in the final version.
Cinematographer Nicholas Josef von Sternberg is the son of classic movie director Josef von Sternberg, who directed a version of the same story: Crime and Punishment (1935).
This was Sir John Hurt's second appearance in a movie of "Crime and Punishment". He played Raskolnikov in the mini-series Crime and Punishment (1979).