The Brothers Karamazov

Synopsis

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

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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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  Miko Oscard
  Ilyusha Snegiryov

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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