Starring Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb, Albert Salmi
Paul Page
Directed by Richard Brooks

Print: Color
Runtime: 145 min.
Genre: Drama
Subtitles: Russian with English subtitles

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.