The Brothers Karamazov

Name: The Brothers Karamazov
Director: Richard Brooks
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1958-02-20
Duration: 2 h 25 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb, William Shatner

Directed by Richard Brooks

Drama

History

19582h 25m6.6

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.