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Release Date: 1965

Cast: Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Siobhán McKenna, Jeffrey Rockland, Rita Tushingham, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Ralph Richardson

Categories: Movies, Roadshow theatrical release, Epic, Period piece, War film, Romantic drama, Romance Film

Doctor Zhivago (Russian: До́ктор Жива́го) is a 1965 epic drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. It has remained popular for decades, and as of 2010 is the eighth highest grossing film of all time in the United States, adjusted for inflation. The film takes place mostly during 1912–1923, against a backdrop of World War I, the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War, as the regime of Tsar Nicholas II is overthrown and the Soviet Union established. A narrative framing device, set in the late... MORE

Doctor Zhivago (Russian: До́ктор Жива́го) is a 1965 epic drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. It has remained popular for decades, and as of 2010 is the eighth highest grossing film of all time in the United States, adjusted for inflation. The film takes place mostly during 1912–1923, against a backdrop of World War I, the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War, as the regime of Tsar Nicholas II is overthrown and the Soviet Union established. A narrative framing device, set in the late 1940s to early 1950s, involves KGB Lieutenant General Yevgraf Andreyevich Zhivago (Alec Guinness) searching for the illegitimate child of his half brother, doctor Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago (Omar Sharif), and his mistress Larissa ("Lara") Antipova (Julie Christie). Yevgraf believes a young woman working on a dam project, Tonya Komarovskaya (Rita Tushingham) may be his niece, and tells her the story of her father's life. When he is a child, Yuri Zhivago loses his father, who abandons the family, and his mother, who dies. Left destitute, he is taken in by his mother's friends, Alexander 'Sasha' (Ralph Richardson) and LESS