1965 Oscar-winning movie about life around the time of the 1917 Russian Revolution
Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 British-Italian epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean. It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922, and is based on the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel of the same name. While immensely popular in the West, the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades. For this reason, the film could not be made in the Soviet Union and was instead filmed mostly in Spain.
Cast and Crew
Julie ChristieLara Antipova
Alec GuinnessGeneral Yevgraf Zhivago
Omar SharifDr. Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago
David Leandirector
Web Pages
Video Products
Doctor Zhivago (45th Anniversary Edition) (1965), 4 May 2010
Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1965), 6 Nov 2001
Reviews
Doctor Zhivago (1965), by Stephen W. Carson
'The personal life is dead in Russia. History has killed it.' With these words, Commander Strelnikov sums up the effect of the Bolshevik Revolution on a generation of Russians. The movie, based on Boris Pasternak's novel, follows the poet Doctor Zhivago as his personal life is taken from him, one piece at a time, by the violence of the great utopian experiment.
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