The Brothers Karamazov
1958 · directed by Richard Brooks
- Rating
- 50/100
- Hit
- no
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 Brothers Karamazov (1958), directed by Richard Brooks, rates 50/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Yul Brynner
- Maria Schell
- Claire Bloom
- Lee J. Cobb
- William Shatner
- Richard Basehart
- Albert Salmi
- Judith Evelyn
- Edgar Stehli
- Harry Townes
Crew
- John Alton — Director of Photography
- John D. Dunning — Editor
- Bronislau Kaper — Original Music Composer
- Julius J. Epstein — Screenplay
- Philip G. Epstein — Screenplay
- Richard Brooks — Writer
More from Richard Brooks
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) — 83/100 · hit
- Elmer Gantry (1960) — 83/100 · hit
- In Cold Blood (1967) — 79/100
- The Professionals (1966) — 76/100
- Deadline - U.S.A. (1952) — 74/100
- $ (1971) — 72/100
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