Doctor Zhivago (1965)


Geraldine Chaplin       Tonya
Julie Christie          Lara
Tom Courtenay           Pasha
Alec Guinness           Yevgraf
Siobhan McKenna         Anna
Ralph Richardson        Alexander
Omar Sharif             Yuri
Rod Steiger             Komarovsky
Rita Tushingham         The Girl
Adrienne Corri          Amelia
Geoffrey Keen           Professor Kurt
Jeffrey Rockland        Sasha
Lucy Westmore           Katya
Noel Willman            Razin
Gerard Tichy (II)       Liberius
Klaus Kinski            Kostoyed
Jack MacGowran          Petya
Maria Martin (II)       Gentlewoman
Tarek Sharif            Yuri
Mercedes Ruiz           Tonya
Roger Maxwell           Colonel
Inigo Jackson           Major
Virgilio Texeira        Captain
Bernard Kay (II)        Bolshevik
Erik Chitty             Old Soldier

Directed by:            David Lean, Roy Rossotti
Produced by:            Arvid L. Griffen, Carlo Ponti


Sweeping epic about a Russian doctor pursuing the woman he loves during Russia's turbulent political 
changes of World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution and Communism's rise to power.

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Lara inspires lechery in Komarovsky (her mother's lover who is a master at surviving whoever runs Russia) 
and can't compete with passion for the revolution of the man she marries, Pasha. Her true love is Zhivago 
who also loves his wife. Lara is the one who inspires poetry. The story is narrated by Zhivago's half 
brother Yevgraf, who has made his career in the Soviet Army. At the beginning of the film he is about to 
meet a young woman he believes may be the long lost daughter of Lara and Zhivago.

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Set just before and in the years following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the filme follows the life 
of Zhivago as he marries, raises a family, has his life totally disrupted by first World War One, and then 
by the Revolution. Shown against the Epic of a world turned on its head, his life and freedom are torn from 
him as the new society makes demands. 

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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian 
Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who 
becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken 
by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of 
collectivism.