The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

Drama

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.

Updated May 11 2020

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1958-02-20

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FACTS

Runtime: 145 mins Rating: 6.6 Tag Line: The greatness and glory, the loves and sins of the famed novel.

Cast

William Shatner

Alexi Karamazov

Jay Adler

Pawnbroker

Lee J. Cobb

Robert Clarke

Richard Basehart

Ivan Karamazov

Judith Evelyn

Mme. Anna Hohlakov

Albert Salmi

Smerdjakov

Simon Oakland

Mavrayek

Yul Brynner

Dmitri Karamazov