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Omar Sharif | ... | ||
Julie Christie | ... | ||
Geraldine Chaplin | ... | ||
Rod Steiger | ... | ||
Alec Guinness | ... | ||
Tom Courtenay | ... | ||
Siobhan McKenna | ... | ||
Ralph Richardson | ... | ||
Rita Tushingham | ... | ||
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Jeffrey Rockland | ... |
Sasha
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Tarek Sharif | ... |
Yuri at 8 Years Old
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Bernard Kay | ... | ||
Klaus Kinski | ... | ||
Gérard Tichy | ... |
Liberius
(as Gerard Tichy)
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Noel Willman | ... |
During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago, is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar, who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky, an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, however, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya. But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites. Written by Jwelch5742
David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago" is a classic film, one that will live on as long as their are films. There are scenes in this movie that will invariably become
indelibly etched in the viewers imagination: The opening funeral march through the vast Siberian landscape, the grandeur of the Czarist Russian palaces, the march of the revolutionaries through the Moscow boulevards, the train ride
straight out of Dante's Inferno, the Ice-covered interior of the Zhivago country estate (a truly magical moment in the film), the wealth of beauty captured in the cinematography of this film is astonishing. Julie Christie's Lara is one of those great screen personas--she becomes a woman of such mysterious beauty. The
final scene of Yuri's desperate attempt to reach her in the crowded Soviet
Moscow is heartbreaking. And that music score! The opening film credits with Jarre's genuinely beautiful music, complete with balalaikas sets the mood for this great, grand entertainment. One of the best ever!