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 has generally received positive reviews.
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The Brothers Karamazov was released in 1958 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 21 reviews, giving The Brothers Karamazov (1958) an average rating of 63%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 71% and users giving an average score of 70%.
With a score of 63%, The Brothers Karamazov is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1958, which stands at 60%.
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