The Brothers Karamazov

Feb 20, 1958

2h 25m

★ 6.6

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Avon Productions

The Brothers Karamazov Trailers

Cast

Dmitri Karamazov

Yul Brynner

Grushenka

Maria Schell

Katya

Claire Bloom

Fyodor Karamazov

Lee J. Cobb

Alexi Karamazov

William Shatner

Ivan Karamazov

Richard Basehart

Smerdjakov

Albert Salmi

Mme. Anna Hohlakov

Judith Evelyn

Grigory

Edgar Stehli

Ippoli Kirillov

Harry Townes

Ilyusha Snegiryov

Miko Oscard

Capt. Snegiryov

David Opatoshu

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