Film · Drama, History
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
The greatness and glory, the loves and sins of the famed novel.
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.
- Director
- Richard Brooks
- Writers
- Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- February 20, 1958
Cast
Yul BrynnerDmitri Karamazov
Maria SchellGrushenka
Claire BloomKatya
Lee J. CobbFyodor Karamazov
William ShatnerAlexi Karamazov
Richard BasehartIvan Karamazov
Albert SalmiSmerdjakov
Judith EvelynMme. Anna Hohlakov
Edgar StehliGrigory
Harry TownesIppoli Kirillov- Miko OscardIlyusha Snegiryov
David OpatoshuCapt. Snegiryov
Simon OaklandMavrayek
Frank De KovaCapt. Vrublevski
Jay AdlerPawnbroker
Gage ClarkeDefense Counsel
Ann MorrisonMarya
Mel WellesTrifon Borissovitch
Sam BuffingtonTipsy Merchant
Stafford ReppInnkeeper
