But by transforming two of the Karamazov brothers, Ivan and Aleksei, into the Grand Inquisitor and Christ of Dostoyevsky's debate, Mr. Eifman reached for a parable about Russia today.
Don Quixote or Anna Karenina, Karamazov brothers or Faust - all of them overstep in this or that manner the boundaries of normality.
The experience resembles being in love with female versions of the three Karamazov brothers, all at once.
He is the youngest of the Karamazov brothers, being "then only twenty (his brother Ivan was twenty-three and their older brother, Dmitry, twenty-seven)".
His early image of the three cursed Karamazov brothers and their father ensnared in a net is true to form.
You don't have to be religious to understand the impact of the two moments in which Igor Markov, in a magnificent performance as Aleksei, the saintly Karamazov brother, climbs to the top of the two-tiered set and a huge cross, seeking God.
Though his official movie debut was in the 1951 Canadian film, The Butler's Night Off, Shatner's first feature role came in the 1958 MGM film The Brothers Karamazov with Yul Brynner, in which he starred as the youngest of the Karamazov brothers, Alexei.
Had Fyodor Dostoyevsky had access to this book, I believe that the four Karamazov brothers would have fared a lot better than they did.
He is the youngest of the Karamazov brothers, being twenty years old at the start of the novel.
Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov (a.k.a. Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Alyoshechka, Alexeichik, Lyosha, Lyoshenka) at age 20 is the youngest of the Karamazov brothers, the youngest child by Karamazov's second wife and thus Ivan's full brother.