The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-02-26

Languages:

English, Polish, Russian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

145 min

Rated:

TV-PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1780 Reviews)

Director:

Richard Brooks

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Fyodor Dostoevsky (novel)

Julius J. Epstein (adaptation)

Philip G. Epstein (adaptation)

Richard Brooks

Constance Garnett (English translation)

Fullplot:

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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