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The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

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

19586.62h 25m

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.

Directed by Richard Brooks
Written by Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Produced by Pandro S. Berman
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Top Cast

Yul Brynner

Yul Brynner

Dmitri Karamazov

Maria Schell

Maria Schell

Grushenka

Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom

Katya

Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb

Fyodor Karamazov

William Shatner

William Shatner

Alexi Karamazov

Richard Basehart

Richard Basehart

Ivan Karamazov

Albert Salmi

Albert Salmi

Smerdjakov

Judith Evelyn

Judith Evelyn

Mme. Anna Hohlakov

Edgar Stehli

Edgar Stehli

Grigory

Harry Townes

Harry Townes

Ippoli Kirillov

Themes & Keywords

jealousybased on novel or bookfather murderdebt collectordebtmistressdrinkdeathoverbearing fatherinheritance fightpatricidefather son conflictrussian literaturerussiafather son relationshipkaramazov

About The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov is a drama, history film released in 1958 exploring themes of jealousy, based on novel or book, father murder, debt collector, debt, mistress. Directed by Richard Brooks, it stars Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom. 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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