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The Brothers Karamazov

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

  • Movie
  • 1958
  • 2h 25m

Directed by Richard Brooks

6.5

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6.5 out of 10 from 52 votes

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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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Cast and crew

  • Yul Brynner

    Yul BrynnerDmitri Karamazov

  • Maria Schell

    Maria SchellGrushenka

  • Claire Bloom

    Claire BloomKatya

  • Lee J. Cobb

    Lee J. CobbFyodor Karamazov

  • William Shatner

    William ShatnerAlexi Karamazov

  • Richard Basehart

    Richard BasehartIvan Karamazov

  • Albert Salmi

    Albert SalmiSmerdjakov

  • Judith Evelyn

    Judith EvelynMme. Anna Hohlakov

  • Edgar Stehli

    Edgar StehliGrigory

  • Harry Townes

    Harry TownesIppoli Kirillov

  • Miko OscardIlyusha Snegiryov

  • David Opatoshu

    David OpatoshuCapt. Snegiryov

  • Simon Oakland

    Simon OaklandMavrayek

  • Frank De Kova

    Frank De KovaCapt. Vrublevski

  • Jay Adler

    Jay AdlerPawnbroker

  • Gage Clarke

    Gage ClarkeDefense Counsel

  • Ann Morrison

    Ann MorrisonMarya

  • Mel Welles

    Mel WellesTrifon Borissovitch

Director
Richard Brooks
Writer
Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Fyodor Dostoevsky
Music
Bronislau Kaper
Cinematography
John Alton