a a big dostoyevsky fan and i have always be disappoint with hollywood halfhearted attempt to get into the russian romantic aesthetic case in point and yul brynner a dmitri karamazov . i have think the whole problem be a poor casting decision and but then i saw yul a major surov and change my mind . when give an intelligent script to work with and he suddenly come alive and be a noble and sexy and and conflict a you could ever want a neurotic russian officer to be . so he be a good dmitri a major surov than he be a dmitri . but that because writer tabori actually give yul and a the conflicted russian officer and the kind of conflicted russian officer line that be worthy of real literature and and that have real meaning and pathos in them . for example and a propos of folk music and he say musingly and you hear a man cry in the dark . and if you listen carefully enough and you know what he cry for . you look surprised and lady ashmore . despite what you may have hear and tractor and marxism aren not the only thing the russian care for . there be always time for music . brilliant .