Product Details

• Actors: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb, Albert Salmi
• Directors: Richard Brooks
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM/UA Great Books on Video
• Run Time: 146 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000KE1N4S
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,560 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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. Summary written by {[e-mail]}

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Movie!, December 28, 2011

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Jean "Jean" (Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Brothers Karamazov (MGM/UA Great Books On Video) (VHS Tape)

I saw this movie decades ago when it was first released and loved it. I saw it again in the last ten years and it was just as good on every level. It is a great story, full of every kind of human interaction: philosophy, romance, intrigue, and mystery.

The actors are top-notch; the photography and sets are excellent. I am about to buy a copy so I can see it again and show it to my grandchildren. Jean

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3.0 out of 5 stars Unfamiliar Era, December 26, 2008

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Libby Maxwell (Cookeville, TN) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Brothers Karamazov (MGM/UA Great Books On Video) (VHS Tape)

I found this movie to be uninteresting, as I'm not "steeped" in the particular setting. I began viewing, then about half finished, I quit....and then REWOUND, of course...tee-hee!