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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.

The greatness and glory, the loves and sins of the famed novel.

Genres: Drama

Starring: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom

Released: February 20, 1958

Runtime: 145.0

Popularity Rating: 3.425

Avon Productions (II), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

United States of America

Dmitri Karamazov Yul Brynner
Grushenka Maria Schell
Katya Claire Bloom
Father Karamazov Lee J. Cobb
Smerdjakov Albert Salmi
Alexi Karamazov William Shatner
Ivan Karamazov Richard Basehart
Mme. Anna Hohlakov Judith Evelyn
Grigory Edgar Stehli
Ippoli Kirillov Harry Townes
Ilyusha Snegiryov Miko Oscard
Capt. Snegiryov David Opatoshu
Mavrayek Simon Oakland
Capt. Vrublevski Frank De Kova
Pawnbroker Jay Adler
Defense Counsel Gage Clarke
Marya Ann Morrison
Trifon Borissovitch Mel Welles

Camera — Director of Photography: John Alton
Costume & Make-Up — Costume Design: Walter Plunkett
Directing — Director: Richard Brooks
Editing — Editor: John D. Dunning
Production — Casting: Mel Ballerino
Production — Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Sound — Music: Bronislau Kaper
Writing — Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein
Writing — Screenplay: Philip G. Epstein
Writing — Screenplay: Richard Brooks