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Those moviegoers who came to know and love Yul Brynner as the King of Siam in the film The King and I will be pleased to find him unchanged in his role of Dmitri in The Brothers Karamazov. His head is still bald; he still struggles with his emotions with the expressionless face of a man who has just sat through an elementary Hum. lecture; and his mien while watching Maria Schell (Grushenka) shake voluptuously through a rather fiery dance sequence in a Russian-style sin-den is not unlike the beaming countenance he displayed while greeting his numerous children...
...short, he is not the passionate Dmitri Karamazov whom Dostoevsky envisioned--the enormously complicated sensualist who could cry out, "When I do leap into the pit, I go headlong with my heels up, and am pleased to be falling in that degrading attitude and pride myself upon it. . . . Though I may be following the devil I am Thy son, O Lord, and I love Thee...
...Forgotten Man. It is a plain tale with an ancient theme. A young schoolmaster, Dmitri Lopatkin. invents a machine for making drainpipes. He sends the drawing of his new centrifugal pipe-casting machine to the responsible bureau, receives friendly encouragement and has his project submitted to "expert" opinion. Promptly things start going wrong. Lopatkin, who has given up schoolteaching and is now wholly dedicated to the cause of drainpipery, falls victim to a mysterious bureaucratic runaround. Months and years pass in a silence punctuated only by official notifications: "It is not considered possible . . ." "Your complaint has been forwarded to . . ." Occasionally...
...troubled. ("Yet happiness eludes my sad, my tortured soul.") In one of the most delightful scenes, his minister, Prince Shuisky, guilefully played by N. Khanayev, reports that the pretender's forces are nearing Moscow. Catching the drift of the wind. Boris remarks that there is no pretender, the pretender Dmitri is the sovereign, "and Shuisky for perjury shall be quartered...
...their predicaments or laying cluttered schemes, I. Koslovsky, as the fool, offers the film's most subtle performance. He appears just twice--first to accuse Boris in a soft, demented idiot's song and then at the end to lament Russia's unrule. Boris Godunov has come and gone, Dmitri has left the land in flames and he, too, will soon be murdered; nothing has changed...