The Brothers Karamazov

IMDb 6.6 1958 • 145 min • DramaHistory

Director

Richard Brooks

Country

US

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner Dmitri Karamazov
Maria Schell
Maria Schell Grushenka
Claire Bloom
Claire Bloom Katya
Lee J. Cobb
Lee J. Cobb Fyodor Karamazov
William Shatner
William Shatner Alexi Karamazov