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The Karamazov Brothers (film)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name=The Karamazov Brothers
| image=Karamazoviposter.jpg
| director=Petr Zelenka
| writer=Petr Zelenka
| starring=Ivan Trojan
David Novotn
Igor Chmela
Martin Myika
Radek Holub
| music=Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
| released=
| runtime=100 minutes
| country = Czech Republic
| language=Czech
Polish
| budget=12,000,000 Czech koruna
(480,000)
}}
'The Karamazov Brothers' is a 2008 Czech film directed by Petr Zelenka with a soundtrack by Jan A. P. Kaczmarek. It tells the story of a group of Czech actors who come to Polish steelworks to perform a stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1880 novel 'The Brothers Karamazov' at an alternative drama festival. As rehearsals get under way, we follow not only the emotional story examining issues of faith, immortality and the salvation of the human soul, but also the relationships within the acting troupe itself, which strangely reflect Dostoevsky's "great" themes. The stage drama is transferred to the real world when a tragedy occurs during rehearsal involving one of the spectators. 'Karamazovi' won the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) award in Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2008 and was submitted by The Czech Republic for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
See also
*'Bratya Karamazovy', a 1969 Soviet adaptation of the same novel
References
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