The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1958-02-20
Runtime: 145 minutes
Director: Richard Brooks
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- Yul Brynner as Dmitri Karamazov
- Maria Schell as Grushenka
- Claire Bloom as Katya
- Lee J. Cobb as Fyodor Karamazov
- William Shatner as Alexi Karamazov
- Richard Basehart as Ivan Karamazov
- Albert Salmi as Smerdjakov
- Judith Evelyn as Mme. Anna Hohlakov
- Edgar Stehli as Grigory
- Harry Townes as Ippoli Kirillov
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