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.
as Dmitri Karamazov
as Grushenka
as Katya
as Fyodor Karamazov
as Alexi Karamazov
as Ivan Karamazov
as Smerdjakov
as Mme. Anna Hohlakov
as Grigory
as Ippoli Kirillov
as Ilyusha Snegiryov
as Capt. Snegiryov
as Mavrayek
as Capt. Vrublevski
as Pawnbroker
as Defense Counsel
as Marya
as Trifon Borissovitch
as Tipsy Merchant
as Innkeeper
as Gypsy Singer
as Mother (uncredited)
