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The Brothers Karamazov
“The greatness and glory, the loves and sins of the famed novel.”
6.5 / 10• 1958• 2h 25m•NR• English
DramaHistory
Storyline
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
Cast & Crew
Yul Brynner
Dmitri Karamazov
Lead
Maria Schell
Grushenka
Claire Bloom
Katya
Lee J. Cobb
Fyodor Karamazov
William Shatner
Alexi Karamazov
Richard Basehart
Ivan Karamazov
Albert Salmi
Smerdjakov
Judith Evelyn
Mme. Anna Hohlakov
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Richard Brooks's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Brothers Karamazov is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
