 When Boris father visits him in his prison cell, near the end of  the movie, he tells him about Raskolnikow killing two women and  about getting told by the brothers Karamazow. Raskolnikow is the  protagonist in Dostojewskis classic Crime and Punishment, in  which he Raskolnikow commits murder and how he deals with the moral  consequences afterwards. The Brothers Karamazow is another epic  book by the same Russian writer.