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This programme is a dramatization in English of the fable of "The Grand Inquisitor", translated from Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov", The Grand Inquisitor is a figme...nt of one of the brother's imaginings, and expresses the doubts and problems which torture his mind. The programme consists essentially of one great speech, and the part of the Grand Inquisitor is played by Sir John Gielgud. The programme provides a particularly effective example of a creative product and suggests an analysis of ways of looking at the nature of good and evil, as portrayed in the fable.
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Module code and title: E201, Personality and learning
Item code: E201; 09
First transmission date: 05-06-1976
Published: 1976
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Duration: 00:25:53
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Producer: Richard Argent
Contributors: Michael Feast; John Gielgud; Jeremy Brooks; Kitty Hunter-Blair
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): "The Brothers Karamazov"; "The Grand Inquisitor"; Dostoevsky; Dramatization; Fable; Good and evil
Footage description: The performance comprises a monologue by Gielgud, who plays the Grand Inquisitor, addressed to a silent Christ-like prisoner, played by Michael Feast. The action takes place in a prison cell. The prisoner, who may or may not actually be Christ, hears out the hostile diatribe of the Grand Inquisitor, rising only to kiss him at the end of the programme, having been sentenced to death.
Master spool number: 6HT/72038
Production number: FOU2536E
Videofinder number: 552
Available to public: no