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Doctor Zhivago

Oscar-winning epic. A doctor and poet falls in love with the mistress of a political opportunist, but their romance is disrupted by the social upheaval surrounding them.

Doctor and poet Yuri Zhivago is brought up in the family of Alexander Gromeko, whose daughter Tonya he eventually marries. But his true love is for the passionate and beautiful Lara, the mistress of a political opportunist. With the outbreak of the Great War, and with Moscow transformed by the Revolution, their romance is disrupted by the social upheaval surrounding them.

David Lean's Oscar-winning epic set in revolutionary Russia, based on the novel by Boris Pasternak.

3 hours, 3 minutes

Last on

Sat 27 Jul 2024 12:30

Credits

Role Contributor
Yuri Zhivago Omar Sharif
Tonya Geraldine Chaplin
Director David Lean
Producer Carlo Ponti
Yevgraf Alec Guinness
Kostoyed Klaus Kinski
Lara Julie Christie
Pasha/Strenikov Tom Courtenay
The Girl Rita Tushingham
Komarovsky Rod Steiger
Anna Siobhan McKenna
Alexander Ralph Richardson
Writer Robert Bolt
Sasha Jeffrey Rockland
The Bolshevik Bernard Kay

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