DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)

 

Directed by: David Lean

Based on the novel by: Boris Pasternak

Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson, Siobhan McKenna, Rita Tushingham, Jeffrey Rockland, Klaus Kinski, Bernard Kay, Gerard Tichy, Jack MacGowran, Noel Willman, Geoffrey Keen, Adrienne Corri, Mark Eden, Tarek Sharif, Pamella Carrington-Coutte

200 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

During the Russian Revolution, Dr. 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.

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