Film

The Brothers Karamazov

1958 · 2h 25m · Drama · History

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

IMDb

6.7

Rotten Tomatoes

25%

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.

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

• Richard BrooksDirector · Writer
• Julius J. EpsteinScreenplay
• Philip G. EpsteinScreenplay
• Fyodor DostoevskyNovel
• Pandro S. BermanProducer
• John AltonDirector of Photography
• Bronislau KaperOriginal Music Composer
• John D. DunningEditor
• Mel BallerinoCasting

The Brothers Karamazov (Original Theatrical Trailer)

Release date

February 20, 1958

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 25m

Rated

16

Genres

Drama, History

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