The read
Audiences rate it 42 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 42 points higher than critics do.
52 audience votes
Key crew
- Philip G. EpsteinScreenplay
- Julius J. EpsteinScreenplay
- Richard BrooksDirector
- Richard BrooksWriter
- Bronislau KaperOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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 OscardIlyusha Snegiryov
- David OpatoshuCapt. Snegiryov