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Doctor Zhivago (1965)

PG-13 | | Drama, Romance, War | 31 December 1965 (USA)
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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 the First World War and then the October Revolution.

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Jeffrey Rockland ...
Sasha
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Yuri at 8 Years Old
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Liberius (as Gerard Tichy)
Noel Willman ...
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Storyline

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

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russian revolution | russia | bolshevik | poet | poetry | See All (166) »

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Drama | Romance | War

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Rated PG-13 for mature themes | See all certifications »

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31 December 1965 (USA)  »

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Doktor Živago  »

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Box Office

Budget:

$11,000,000 (estimated)

Gross USA:

$111,722,000
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| (1999 re-release) | (1992 re-release)

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(Westrex Recording System) (5.0) (L-R)

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2.35 : 1
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Trivia

Jane Fonda turned down the role of Lara because she didn't want to go to Spain for nine months, but weeks later she changed her mind and informed her agent she wanted to do it. By then Julie Christie had been signed to play Lara. In 2014, Fonda said that of all the movies she's turned down, Doctor Zhivago is the one she regrets not doing the most. See more »

Goofs

Lean obviously tried very hard to recreate accurately the period of the story. Unfortunately he commits a mistake very common in historical movies from since the Silent Era: the women wear hair and makeup that is not right for the movie's historical era, but which belongs instead to the mid 1960s, the time the movie was made. See more »

Quotes

Gromeko: [Aghast while reading newspaper] They've shot the Czar. And all his family.
[crumples newspaper]
Gromeko: Oh, that's a savage deed. What's it for?
Zhivago: It's to show there's no going back.
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Connections

Referenced in Remembering 'Battlestar Galactica' (2004) See more »

Soundtracks

The Internationale
Lyrics by Eugène Pottier
Music by Pierre De Geyter
[Sung by crowd in the street]
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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Did Lara name her lost daughter after Yuri's wife Tonya?
Q: How closely does the movie follow Pasternak's novel?
Q: Why did Pasha change his name to Strelnikov after joining with the Bolsheviks?
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A Grand and Elegant Entertainment
13 August 2004 | by – See all my reviews

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!
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