Dostoevsky on Stage: The Brothers Karamazov and the Idiot

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. 3 cassettes.