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A love caught in the fire of Revolution.Bloody Sunday and the 1905 Revolution, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and Russian Civil War, as the regime of Czar Nicholas II was overthrown and the Soviet Union established.The film's framing device involves General Yevgraf Zhivago (Alec Guinness) searching for the love child of his brother, poet and doctor Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), and his mistress Larissa ("Lara") Antipova (Julie Christie); Yevgraf believes a young girl named Tonya Komarovskya (Rita Tushingham, referred to as "The Girl" in the credits) to be his niece.Yevgraf narrates the story, periodically appearing in it, though rarely interacts with any other characters in the flashbacks.Lara, meanwhile, lives with her mother (Adrienne Corri), a dressmaker who is being "advised" by Victor Komarovsky (Rod Steiger), a lawyer with political connections, who had also been also the friend and business partner of Zhivago's father.Pasha allowed the wound to scar, partly out of machismo and partly because his low social status does not entitle him to medical attention.Lara becomes more deeply involved with Komarovsky, until her mother discovers their affair and tries to kill herself by swallowing iodine.Komarovsky discovers her and summons help from Kurt and his assistant Zhivago, who sees Lara for the first time.When Pasha, now a dedicated Bolshevik, tells Komarovsky that he intends to marry Lara, Komarovsky tries to dissuade Lara from doing so, and then rapes her.Travelling with a group of deserters, Lara meets Zhivago, who is with a column of replacement troops; the soldiers mutiny and join the deserters, and Zhivago enlists the help of Lara to tend to their wounded.Yuri meets his son Sasha for the first time in years and resumes his old job at the local hospital, but is furious that his family is lacking in basic fuel and food.Yevgraf informs Zhivago that his poems had been condemned by the government as subversive, putting their whole family at risk for collective punishment.He helps arrange for their transport to the Gromeko estate at Varykino, in the Urals.While the Urals train is stopped, Zhivago wanders away from the train, listening to the sound of a waterfall, and stumbles across Strelnikov's armored train.However, they decide to occupy the smaller guest cottage.The family lives a mundane life until the next spring, when Zhivago goes into Yuriatin and finds Lara is the local librarian.The two reacquaint themselves and consummate a sexual relationship.After serving with the Partisans for nearly two years as a medical officer, Zhivago escapes, only to find that his family has left Varykino and emigrated to Paris; he goes to Lara's home in Yuriatin, and is ultimately discovered by Lara.Komarovsky reappears, telling Yuri that Strelnikov has killed himself while being walked to his execution, and that Lara is in immediate danger.Yuri sends Lara away with Komarovsky, but remains behind.Yuri later retuns to Moscow, where Yevgraf gets him a hospital job and buys him some clothes.While riding a tram to work, he sees a woman he recognizes as Lara, jumps off the tram, and runs after her.Lara comes to his funeral, surprised and saddened by his death.Lara has become separated from her and Yuri's child, and enlists Yevgraf's help, which is unavailing.At the end of Yevgraf's story, the girl ends the meeting and leaves with her boyfriend.Yuri and Lara, thus bringing a coda to the framing device.Cast
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.Rod Steiger was on set filming for 12 months.Background
This famous film version by David Lean was created for various reasons.Sharif loved the novel, and when he heard Lean was making a film adaptation, he requested to be cast in the role of Pasha (which ultimately went to Tom Courtenay).Moscow set being built from scratch outside of Madrid.Most of the scenes covering Zhivago and Lara's service in World War I were filmed in Soria, as was the Varykino estate.Some of the winter sequences were filmed in Finland, mostly landscape scenes, and Yuri's escape from the Partisans.Varykino was filmed in Soria as well, a house filled with frozen beeswax.Most of the winter scenes were filmed in warm temperatures, sometimes of up to ninety degrees Fahrenheit.Movie
The film version of Zhivago is faithful to the book in a general sense; the basic plot remains the same, and storywise there are relatively few deviations from the novel.Other characters (most notably Kuril, the Bolshevik deserter, Commissar Razin, and Petya, the Varykino groundskeeper) were created as an amalgamation of characters from the book which had been excised from the film version.The scenes of Yuri's service with and escape from the Partisans included scenes where Liberius executes mortally wounded Partisans.Perhaps the biggest change in characterization is of the Pasha character.Zhivago, and its box office success allowed Lean to write off his critics.Lean would make Ryan's Daughter (1970) a few years later before going fifteen years until making his final film, A Passage to India (1984).Over the years, the film's critical reputation has gained in stature, and today Zhivago is considered to be one of Lean's finest works and is highly critically acclaimed, along with Lawrence and Bridge on the River Kwai.Geraldine Chaplin appearance on the What's My Line?Viewed on September 10, 2007.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.For other uses, see Doctor Zhivago (disambiguation).It tells the story of a man torn between two women, set primarily against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution of 1917.The book was made into a film by David Lean in 1965 and has also been adapted numerous times for television, most recently as a miniseries for Russian TV in 2005.Foreground
Although it contains passages written in the 1910s and 1920s, Doctor Zhivago was not completed until 1956.After submission for publication to the journal Noviy mir, it was rejected because of Pasternak's political viewpoint (incorrect in the eyes of the Soviet Union): the author, like Dr Zhivago, was more concerned with the welfare of the individual person than with the welfare of the State.In medical school, one of his professors reminds him that bacteria may be beautiful under the microscope, but they do ugly things to people.Zhivago's idealism and principles stand in brutal contrast to the horrors of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the subsequent Russian Civil War.Bolsheviks, Rebels and the White Army.He ponders on how the war can turn the whole world senseless, and make a previously reasonable group of people destroy each other with no regard for life.His journey through Russia has an epic feeling because of his travelling through a world which is in such striking contrast to himself, relatively uncorrupted by the violence, and to his desire to find a place away from it all, which drives him across the Arctic Siberia of Russia, and eventually back to Moscow.Since Rachmaninov was a friend of the Pasternak family, and Plevitskaya a friend of Rachmaninov, Plevitskaya was probably Pasternak's "mind image" when he wrote the chapter; something which also shows how Pasternak had roots in music.Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
Doctor Zhivago has been adapted for film and stage several times:
The most famous version is a 1965 film adaptation, by David Lean, featuring the Egyptian actor Omar Sharif and English actress Julie Christie as the eponymous character and as Lara.The music, by Maurice Jarre, features "Lara's Theme", a romance that is most of the film's appeal.Zhivago, a musical adaptation of the story, features music by Lucy Simon ("The Secret Garden"), a book by Michael Weller ("Hair," "Ragtime" screenplays), and lyrics by Michael Korie ("Doll" and the "Harvey Milk" opera libretto) and Amy Powers ("Lizzie Borden" and songs for "Sunset Boulevard").Zhivago is the name of Leo's dog on That '70s Show.See Copyrights for details."Are you sure you want to block this user?"Get the brand new album at www.Philippe and Dominik started it as a project.Together with their beloved instruments they decided to go to a country house to the Alsace in order to see what kind of influence these huge amounts of Alsatian sausages, beer and cheese can have on their music.The thing was, that they needed at that point some relaxed lads to add the necessary zest!Tresor dOr members Felix, Josef and Flo, old buddies.And in addition to that, they all together shared the other interests as Alsatian beer, cheese and sausages of course.To come up to these high demands, the guys rehearsed like hell, their fingers and their throats (i.But they were happy, because in Automn 2005, Zhivago could enter www.Basel to record their debut....Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.The Unborn Chikken Voices.ETH) die Pharmapaaardey 2007!There's 4 brand new songs on our page.Would be great to see you at one of our shows!!This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.Id + " Link: " + targetLink.An ecstatic act of filmmaking..."Your user agent does not support frames or is currently configured
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The document has moved here.MOVIE SYNOPSISDavid Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an exploration of the Russian Revolution as seen from the point of view of the intellectual, introspective title character (Omar Sharif).As the political landscape changes, and the Czarist regime comes to an end, Dr.Zhivago's relationships reflect the political turmoil raging about him.Create A JournalWant to see your friends' ratings and Tomatometer appear here?Create a journal and start rating films in your entries.It's FREE and only takes a couple minutes!Reviews Counted: 28
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Average Rating: 7.The film is shot after shot, scene after scene, of glorious beauty...Plays as a sweeping, episodic tale set against the backdrop of World War I and the Russian Revolution, with some of the most stunning vistas ever captured on film.As always, Lean's handling of the purely physical aspects of the material is spectacular.Lean discovered, and fell in love with, Julie Christie, and knew straightaway that his audience would too.Steiger and Courtenay excepted, all the performances are very uncomfortable.David Lean's 1965 adaptation of Pasternak's romance of the Russian Revolution is intelligent and handsomely mounted, though it doesn't use its length to build to a particularly complex emotional effect.Long, but lovely and romantic, and epic!Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?Certain Doctor Zhivago article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.By continuing past this page, and by the continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.Persepolis
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The Great...Russian Revolution is remade for the television screen in this British miniseries, the first film adaptation of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO since David Lean's legendary 1965 feature.This retelling of the literary classic is scripted by celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies (BRIDGET JONES' DIARY) and features Sam Neill in a chilling performance as Lara's villainous tormentor Komarovsky.Buy the DVD
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Hans Matheson, Keira Knightley, Sam Neill, Alexandra Maria Lara (more)
Director(s)
Giacomo Campiotti
Writer(s) Andrew Davies
Status On DVD
Release Year 2003
DVD Release Date Nov.Series, Tragedy, Doomed Lovers, Remake, Love Triangles, Russia, Poets, Based On A Novel
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