Film

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Name: Doctor Zhivago
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Released: 1965

A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution
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Drama, Romance, War· Directed by David Lean· 200 min

Overview

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.

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In a world of guns and ice there is the great noise of battle and the greater silence of lovers
Turbulent were the times and fiery was the love story of Zhivago, his wife and the passionate, tender Lara.
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Top billing

Omar Sharif as Dr. Yuri Zhivago
Julie Christie as Lara Antipova
Geraldine Chaplin as Tonya Gromeko
Rod Steiger as Viktor Komarovsky
Alec Guinness as Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

Topics

1910s
based on novel or book
condescending
daughter
forbidden love
loss of loved one
love triangle
melodramatic
metrocolor
nurse
russian revolution (1917)
stepparents
suicide attempt
world war i