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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.

1958 |2h 25m |  Drama, History

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Cast

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Yul Brynner

Dmitri Karamazov

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Maria Schell

Grushenka

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Claire Bloom

Katya

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Lee J. Cobb

Fyodor Karamazov

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William Shatner

Alexi Karamazov

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Richard Basehart

Ivan Karamazov

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Albert Salmi

Smerdjakov

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Judith Evelyn

Mme. Anna Hohlakov

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Edgar Stehli

Grigory

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Harry Townes

Ippoli Kirillov

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David Opatoshu

Capt. Snegiryov

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Simon Oakland

Mavrayek

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Frank De Kova

Capt. Vrublevski

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Jay Adler

Pawnbroker

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Gage Clarke

Defense Counsel

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Ann Morrison

Marya

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Mel Welles

Trifon Borissovitch

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Stafford Repp

Innkeeper

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Ziva Rodann

Gypsy Singer

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Status

Released

Language

Russian, English, Polish

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