The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
145 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1958 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Richard Brooks

Written By:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Julius J. Epstein

Actors:
Yul Brynner ..... Dmitri Karamazov
Maria Schell ..... Grushenka
Claire Bloom ..... Katya
Lee J. Cobb ..... Father Karamazov
Albert Salmi ..... Smerdjakov
William Shatner ..... Alexi Karamazov
Richard Basehart ..... Ivan Karamazov
Judith Evelyn ..... Mme. Anna Hohlakov
Edgar Stehli ..... Grigory
Harry Townes ..... Ippoli Kirillov
Miko Oscard ..... Ilyusha Snegiryov
David Opatoshu ..... Capt. Snegiryov
Simon Oakland ..... Mavrayek
Frank DeKova ..... Capt. Vrublevski (as Frank de Kova)
Jay Adler ..... Pawnbroker

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.

Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov is given a Hollywood screen treatment by producer Pandro S. Berman and director Richard Brooks. Yul Brynner plays Dmitri Karamazov, a callous Russian officer who cuckolds his domineering father (Lee J. Cobb) with the old man's mistress Grushenka (Maria Schell). Richard Basehart is Dmitri's intellectual brother Ivan, while William Shatner is the pious Alexey Karamazov; both men eventually enjoy the attentions of the willing Grushenka. The Karamazovs' half-brother is Smedyakov (Albert Salmi), an epileptic whose purpose in the story is clarified after the family patriarch's murder. It is now part of Hollywood folklore that Marilyn Monroe fought long and hard to be cast as the enigmatic Grushenka.

Adaptation of Dostoevsky's classic about three brothers and the influence bared upon them by their roguish father.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 08 September, 2009.

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