- HD 1080
- Runtime: 145m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Richard Brooks
- Stars: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb, William Shatner
- keywords: jealousy, based on novel or book, father murder, debt collector, debt, mistress, drink, death, overbearing father, inheritance fight, patricide, father son conflict, russian literature, russia, father son relationship, karamazov
- Production_studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Avon Productions
- Slogan: The greatness and glory, the loves and sins of the famed novel.
- The The Brothers Karamazov is featured in the top rankings of 1958
- #54 in Top Drama Movies of 1958
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.