The Brothers Karamazov

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Yul BrynnerDmitri Karamazov

Maria SchellGrushenka

Claire BloomKatya

Lee J. CobbFyodor Karamazov

William ShatnerAlexi Karamazov

Richard BasehartIvan Karamazov

Albert SalmiSmerdjakov

Judith EvelynMme. Anna Hohlakov

Edgar StehliGrigory

Harry TownesIppoli Kirillov

Miko Oscard

Miko OscardIlyusha Snegiryov

David OpatoshuCapt. Snegiryov