These spellbinding dramatizations of Dostoyevsky's passionate novels, "The Brothers Karamazov" and "The Idiot", are brilliantly presented by all-star casts. In "The Idiot", Edward Asner, Harry Hamlin, Shirley Knight and others capture the seductive darkness of 19th-century Russian high society. Prince Myshkin returns to the jaded social whirl of 1860s St. Petersburg after 15 years of treatment for epilepsy in a Swiss Institute. The brothers Karamazov spring from the pages of this novel, led by their roue of a father, who ...
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These spellbinding dramatizations of Dostoyevsky's passionate novels, "The Brothers Karamazov" and "The Idiot", are brilliantly presented by all-star casts. In "The Idiot", Edward Asner, Harry Hamlin, Shirley Knight and others capture the seductive darkness of 19th-century Russian high society. Prince Myshkin returns to the jaded social whirl of 1860s St. Petersburg after 15 years of treatment for epilepsy in a Swiss Institute. The brothers Karamazov spring from the pages of this novel, led by their roue of a father, who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing and pitting his three sons against each other in this rousing performance featuring Sharon Gless, Harry Hamlin, and "Star Trek's" John de Lancie.
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