Feature1958·145m·6.5

The Brothers Karamazov

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

DramaHistory

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

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

Ann Morrison

Marya

Mel Welles

Trifon Borissovitch

Sam Buffington

Tipsy Merchant

Stafford Repp

Innkeeper

Details

Status
Released
Original language
English
Languages
English
Budget
Revenue
Age rating
Quality
4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-MayerAvon Productions

Crew

Director

Richard Brooks

Writers

Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Brooks

John D. Dunning

Editor

John Alton

Director of Photography

Walter Plunkett

Costume Design

Bronislau Kaper

Original Music Composer

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