The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Directed by Richard Brooks · 145 min · Drama, History
12.3 TOPICAL score · #5,342 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
The Brothers Karamazov (1958, directed by Richard Brooks) has a TOPICAL score of 12.3 - ranked 5,342 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and cast, and lowest on critics. It won 1 award from 2 nominations, including the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films. Critics: 25% on Rotten Tomatoes · 4.5/10 critics' average. Audiences: TMDB 6.5/10 (52 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 22 languages.
Why this score
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- Critics25% on Rotten Tomatoes · 4.5/10 critics' average
- AudienceTMDB 6.5/10 (52 ratings)
- Awards1 win, 2 nominations - incl. National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 22 languages
- Still read7,574 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Yul Brynner (actor #408), Maria Schell (actor #1,270), Claire Bloom (actor #1,312), Lee J. Cobb (actor #405)