Product Description

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 {jhailey@hotmail.com}

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15896 in VHS
• Brand: MGM/UA Great Books on Video
• Model: mv300375
• Published on: 1986
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 146 minutes

Features

• clamshell edition

Customer Reviews

Unfamiliar Era
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!