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.

6.6

145 min

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

Miko Oscard

as Ilyusha Snegiryov

David Opatoshu

as Capt. Snegiryov

Simon Oakland

as Mavrayek

Frank De Kova

as Capt. Vrublevski

Jay Adler

as Pawnbroker

Gage Clarke

as Defense Counsel

Ann Morrison

as Marya

Mel Welles

as Trifon Borissovitch

Sam Buffington

as Tipsy Merchant

Stafford Repp

as Innkeeper

Ziva Rodann

as Gypsy Singer

Molly Glessing

as Mother (uncredited)

Director

Richard Brooks