The Brothers Karamazov
20/02/1958
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.
Movie Information
Yul Brynner
as Dmitri Karamazov
Maria Schell
as Grushenka
Claire Bloom
as Katya
Lee J. Cobb
as Fyodor Karamazov
William Shatner
as Alexi Karamazov
Richard Basehart
as Ivan Karamazov
Albert Salmi
as Smerdjakov
Judith Evelyn
as Mme. Anna Hohlakov
Edgar Stehli
as Grigory
Harry Townes
as Ippoli Kirillov
Miko Oscard
as Ilyusha Snegiryov
David Opatoshu
as Capt. Snegiryov
Simon Oakland
as Mavrayek
Frank De Kova
as Capt. Vrublevski
Jay Adler
as Pawnbroker
Gage Clarke
as Defense Counsel
Ann Morrison
as Marya
Mel Welles
as Trifon Borissovitch
Sam Buffington
as Tipsy Merchant
Stafford Repp
as Innkeeper
Ziva Rodann
as Gypsy Singer
Molly Glessing
as Mother (uncredited)
