“The Brothers Karamazov“ 1969 (English subtitles)

A 1969 Soviet film directed by Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov. A film based on “The Brothers Karamazov“ by Fyodor Dostoevsky, a passionate philosophical novel that enters deeply into questions of God, free will, and morality. It is a theological drama dealing with problems of faith, doubt and reason in the context of a modernizing 19th century’s Russia, with a plot that revolves around the subject of patricide. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which inspired the main setting. It has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in literature.