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The Brothers Karamazov (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.
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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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Genre:Drama, History
Written By:Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Richard Brooks
In Theaters:2/20/1958
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Runtime:145 minutes
Studio:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Avon Productions
Cast
Richard Brooks
Director
Yul Brynner
Dmitri Karamazov
Maria Schell
Grushenka
Claire Bloom
Katya
Lee J. Cobb
Fyodor Karamazov
William Shatner
Alexi Karamazov
Richard Basehart
Ivan Karamazov
Albert Salmi
Smerdjakov
Judith Evelyn
Mme. Anna Hohlakov
Edgar Stehli
Grigory
Harry Townes
Ippoli Kirillov
Miko Oscard
Ilyusha Snegiryov
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