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The Brothers Karamazov (1958) [N/A]

Release Date:
February 20, 1958

Original Title:
The Brothers Karamazov

Alternate Titles:
A Karamazov testvérek
Bracia Karamazow
Bröderna Karamazov
Brødrene Karamassov
I fratelli Karamazov
Karamazov
Karamazovin veljekset
Les frères Karamazov
Los hermanos Karamazov
Oi adelfoi Karamazov
Os Irmãos Karamazov
The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov

Genres:
Drama | History

Production Companies:
Avon Productions
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 16  SE: 15 

Runtime: 145

The greatness and glory, the loves and sins of the famed novel.

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Casting:
Mel Ballerino

Costume Design:
Walter Plunkett

Director:
Richard Brooks

Director of Photography:
John Alton

Editor:
John D. Dunning

Novel:
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Original Music Composer:
Bronislau Kaper

Producer:
Pandro S. Berman

Screenplay:
Philip G. Epstein
Julius J. Epstein

Writer:
Richard Brooks

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