The Brothers Karamazov
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.
TV-PG
HD
Drama, Romance
1958
145 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : The Brothers Karamazov
- Duration : 145 min
- Languages : English, Polish, Russian
- Writers : Fyodor Dostoevsky (novel), Julius J. Epstein (adaptation), Philip G. Epstein (adaptation), Richard Brooks, Constance Garnett (English translation)
- Directors : Richard Brooks min
- Imdb : 6.8 (1780 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.6 (521 votes)
- Actors : Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb
Movie Storyline
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.