The Brothers Karamazov
“The greatness and glory, the loves and sins of the famed novel.”
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.
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Cast
22 people
Yul Brynner
Dmitri Karamazov
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Maria Schell
Grushenka
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Claire Bloom
Katya
Known for
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Lee J. Cobb
Fyodor Karamazov
Known for
12 Angry Men
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William Shatner
Alexi Karamazov
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Richard Basehart
Ivan Karamazov
Known for
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Albert Salmi
Smerdjakov
Known for
Caddyshack
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Judith Evelyn
Mme. Anna Hohlakov
Known for
Rear Window
The Tingler
Edgar Stehli
Grigory
Known for
4D Man
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Harry Townes
Ippoli Kirillov
Known for
The Blue Max
The Warrior and the Sorceress
Miko Oscard
Ilyusha Snegiryov
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David Opatoshu
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Richard Brooks Director · Julius J. Epstein Screenplay Philip G. Epstein Screenplay
Worldwide gross $5.4M · Budget $2.7M · United States release February 20, 1958
Box office
Budget
$2,727,000
Worldwide gross
$5,440,000
Gross vs. budget
2.0×
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production · Studio
Avon Productions
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Polish · Russian
Release dates
United States · February 20, 1958
Theatrical
Germany
September 3, 1958 · Theatrical · MGM
Sweden
September 22, 1958 · Theatrical
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