The Brothers Karamazov
(1958)

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

Released: 1958-02-20

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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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Yul Brynner

as Dmitri Karamazov

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Maria Schell

as Grushenka

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Lee J. Cobb

as Fyodor Karamazov

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William Shatner

as Alexi Karamazov

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Richard Basehart

as Ivan Karamazov

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Albert Salmi

as Smerdjakov

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Judith Evelyn

as Mme. Anna Hohlakov

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Harry Townes

as Ippoli Kirillov

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Miko Oscard

as Ilyusha Snegiryov

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David Opatoshu

as Capt. Snegiryov

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Frank De Kova

as Capt. Vrublevski

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Jay Adler

as Pawnbroker

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Gage Clarke

as Defense Counsel

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Mel Welles

as Trifon Borissovitch

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Sam Buffington

as Tipsy Merchant

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Stafford Repp

as Innkeeper

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