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Doctor Zhivago

Turbulent were the times and fiery was the love story of Zhivago, his wife and the passionate, tender Lara.

7.5 / 10

200 minutes

1965-12-22

Russian

IT

Actors :

Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay, Siobhán McKenna, Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Adrienne Corri, Bernard Kay, Geoffrey Keen, Klaus Kinski, Jeffrey Rockland, Gérard Tichy

Description

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

4/2/2023, 9:53:22 AM

David Lean has assembled an excellent cast and together with Maurice Jarre's memorable score and some sweeping cinematography from Freddie Young does considerable justice to the lengthy Pasternak tale of "Yuri" - a Russian physician (Omar Sharif). Alec Guinness, now a General in the Soviet army, takes on the mantle of narrator - using the expertly innocent Rita Tushingham as the conduit for the fl...