The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

The greatness and glory, the loves and sins of the famed novel.

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.

Date of release
1958-02-20
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (52)
Runtime
2h 25m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Richard Brooks

Casting

  • Yul Brynner — Dmitri Karamazov
  • 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
  • Edgar Stehli — Grigory
  • Harry Townes — Ippoli Kirillov
  • Miko Oscard — Ilyusha Snegiryov
  • David Opatoshu — Capt. Snegiryov

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