• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1958-02-20
  • Runtime145 minutes
  • TaglineThe greatness and glory, the loves and sins of the famed novel.
  • RevenueNot Available
  • GenreDrama, History
  • Production
    CompaniesMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Avon Productions
  • BudgetNot Available

Movie Overview

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.

Casts

Yul Brynner

Maria Schell

Claire Bloom

Lee J. Cobb

William Shatner

Richard Basehart

Albert Salmi

Judith Evelyn

Edgar Stehli

Harry Townes

David Opatoshu

Simon Oakland

Frank De Kova

Jay Adler

Gage Clarke

Ann Morrison

Mel Welles

Stafford Repp

Ziva Rodann