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The Brothers Karamazov
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.
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Synopsis
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.
More about The Brothers Karamazov
Cast
Yul BrynnerDmitri Karamazov
Maria SchellGrushenka
Claire BloomKatya
Lee J. CobbFyodor Karamazov
William ShatnerAlexi Karamazov
Richard BasehartIvan Karamazov
Albert SalmiSmerdjakov
Judith EvelynMme. Anna HohlakovCredits
- Directed by
- Richard Brooks
- Written by
- Richard Brooks, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-MayerUnited States- Avon ProductionsUnited States
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