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The Brothers Karamazov

  • 19581958
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 2h 25m
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6.7/10
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The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
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Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
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    • Richard Brooks
  • Writers
    • Julius J. Epstein(adaptation)
    • Philip G. Epstein(adaptation)
    • Fyodor Dostoevsky(novel)
  • Stars
    • Yul Brynner
    • Maria Schell
    • Claire Bloom
    • Richard Brooks
  • Writers
    • Julius J. Epstein(adaptation)
    • Philip G. Epstein(adaptation)
    • Fyodor Dostoevsky(novel)
  • Stars
    • Yul Brynner
    • Maria Schell
    • Claire Bloom
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 35User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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    William Shatner in The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
    Lee J. Cobb and Maria Schell in The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
    Lee J. Cobb and Maria Schell in The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
    Claire Bloom in The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
    Claire Bloom and Maria Schell in The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
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    Yul Brynner
    Yul Brynner
    • Dmitri Karamazov
    Maria Schell
    Maria Schell
    • Grushenka
    Claire Bloom
    Claire Bloom
    • Katya
    Lee J. Cobb
    Lee J. Cobb
    • Fyodor Karamazov
    Albert Salmi
    Albert Salmi
    • Smerdjakov
    William Shatner
    William Shatner
    • Alexi Karamazov
    Richard Basehart
    Richard Basehart
    • Ivan Karamazov
    Judith Evelyn
    Judith Evelyn
    • Mme. Anna Hohlakov
    Edgar Stehli
    Edgar Stehli
    • Grigory
    Harry Townes
    Harry Townes
    • Ippoli Kirillov
    Miko Oscard
    • Ilyusha Snegiryov
    David Opatoshu
    David Opatoshu
    • Capt. Snegiryov
    Simon Oakland
    Simon Oakland
    • Mavrayek
    Frank DeKova
    Frank DeKova
    • Capt. Vrublevski
    • (as Frank de Kova)
    Jay Adler
    Jay Adler
    • Pawnbroker
    Gage Clarke
    Gage Clarke
    • Defense Counsel
    Ann Morrison
    • Marya
    Mel Welles
    Mel Welles
    • Trifon Borissovitch
      • Richard Brooks
    • Writers
      • Julius J. Epstein(adaptation)
      • Philip G. Epstein(adaptation)
      • Fyodor Dostoevsky(novel)
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    • Trivia
      1950's blonde bombshell Gloria Pall has a small part in the beginning of the movie playing a peasant girl being held down on the couch as Fyodor Karamazov tickles her feet with a feather. She was cast after an audition that consisted entirely of being tickled on her feet by an assistant. She beat out 11 other actresses who were tested the same way because she was the most ticklish.
    • Goofs
      (at around 38 mins) There's not a cloud in the sky but still it is snowing.
    • Quotes

      Smerdjakov: If you'll permit a comment, sir, you're not at all like your brother Dmitri.

      Ivan Karamazov: Half-brother.

      Smerdjakov: You're different from all of them. I could see that the first minute you arrived yesterday. Intelligence, audacity, cleverness...

      Ivan Karamazov: You've just never met anyone who lives in Moscow.

      Smerdjakov: No sir, it's those magazine articles you wrote, the ones about crime.

      Ivan Karamazov: [pauses] You enjoyed them.

      Smerdjakov: [takes out a magazine clipping, reads it] There is nothing in the world to make man love their neighbors. If there is no God, then nothing can be immoral. Everything becomes lawful, even crime. Crime becomes not only lawful, but inevitable.

    • Connections
      Edited into Meine Schwester Maria (2002)

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    6/10
    Competent but decidedly superfluous
    The optimum method for bringing a major literary work to the screen is the mini series, (though the television adaptation of Dostoyevski's "Crime and Punishment" was not to my liking.) There's no possible way a novel of the length and complexity such as "Brothers Karamazov" can be done justice to by the cinema, even given 145 minutes.

    This 1959 Hollywood version deserves full marks for summarizing and depicting the plot faithfully, but since so much of the essence of the book is missing one cannot help feeling the pointlessness of the entire exercise.

    Director Richard Brooks manages to sustain the emotion intensity of the piece, keeping the proceedings on an intimate scale, (David Lean no doubt would have blown it up to epic proportions). The cast are largely satisfactory with Yul Brynner is at his charismatic best as Dmitri and Claire Bloom is spot on as Katya. Iridescent Maria Schell is far too genteel for the earthy Grushenka, a part Marilyn Monroe somewhat misguidedly felt she was born to play, according to Hollywood lore. Lee J. Cobb tends towards hamming it up and an almost unrecognizably young William Shatner is a pleasant surprise as the mystically inclined Alexi.

    While there is some enjoyment to be gained from this movie, one can only wholeheartedly offer the recommendation – read the book.
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    • grahamclarke
    • Nov 23, 2003

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      • February 26, 1958 (Japan)
      • United States
      • English
      • Polish
      • Russian
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      • London, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Avon Productions (II)
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