The Brothers Karamazov (1958-02-20)
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.
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Status: Released
Release Date: 1958-02-20
Runtime: 2h 25m
Director: Richard Brooks
Writer: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Richard Brooks
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Top Cast
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
Simon Oakland
Mavrayek
Frank De Kova
Capt. Vrublevski
Jay Adler
Pawnbroker
Gage Clarke
Defense Counsel
Ann Morrison
Marya
Mel Welles
Trifon Borissovitch
Sam Buffington
Tipsy Merchant
Stafford Repp
Innkeeper
Ziva Rodann
Gypsy Singer
Molly Glessing
Mother (uncredited)

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