The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

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

1958 · 145 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama, History

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.

Directed by Richard Brooks · Written by Julius J. Epstein

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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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