Released:
1958-02-20

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.

Director:
Richard Brooks

Runtime:
2h 25min

Genre:
Drama, History

• 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