# The Grand Inquisitor

Produced by the BBC for the British Open University

Presents Sir John Gielgud as the Grand Inquisitor in a monologue excerpted from the cinematic dramatization of Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Examines the deeper meaning of the complex interplay of freedom, authority, and human nature that influences individual motivation and institutional behavior. From the Personality and Learning series

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1975
- By: Gielgud, John, 1904-2000, Open University, British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, Media Guild
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/thegrandinquisitor)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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