The Brothers Karamazov
movie
The greatness and glory, the loves and sins of the famed novel.
Released February 20, 1958
Overview
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.
Cast
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
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Miko Oscard
as
Ilyusha Snegiryov
David Opatoshu
as
Capt. Snegiryov
Crew
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John D. Dunning
as
Editor
John Alton
as
Director of Photography
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Mel Ballerino
as
Casting
Walter Plunkett
as
Costume Design
Richard Brooks
as
Director
Julius J. Epstein
as
Screenplay
Pandro S. Berman
as
Producer
Philip G. Epstein
as
Screenplay
Fyodor Dostoevsky
as
Novel
Richard Brooks
as
Writer
Bronislau Kaper
as
Original Music Composer