The Brothers Karamazov

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.

Main Cast

Yul Brynner

Dmitri Karamazov

Age : 65 | Popularity : 100%

Maria Schell

Grushenka

Age : 79 | Popularity : 51%

Claire Bloom

Katya

Age : N/A | Popularity : 69%

Lee J. Cobb

Fyodor Karamazov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 32%

William Shatner

Alexi Karamazov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 88%

Richard Basehart

Ivan Karamazov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 71%

Albert Salmi

Smerdjakov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 50%

Judith Evelyn

Mme. Anna Hohlakov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 18%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Pandro S. Berman
	Casting	Mel Ballerino
Writing	Screenplay	Julius J. Epstein Philip G. Epstein
	Novel	Fyodor Dostoevsky
	Writer	Richard Brooks
Directing	Director	Richard Brooks
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Walter Plunkett
Camera	Director of Photography	John Alton
Editing	Editor	John D. Dunning
Sound	Original Music Composer	Bronislau Kaper
Department	Role	Name

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