While studying to be a doctor in Moscow, Yuri Zhivago meets the beautiful Lara, setting in train a fateful romance that spans the early years of the Russian Revolution, during which Zhivago and Lara’s lives are turned upside down. This epic, sweeping romance, told in flashback, captures the lushness of Moscow before the war and the violent social upheaval that followed.
Winner of five Academy Awards (and nominated for ten, including “Best Picture”) David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago is an exploration of the Russian Revolution as seen from the point of view of the intellectual, introspective title character (Omar Sharif).
Based on Boris Pasternak’s 1957 largely autobiographical Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Set between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922.
Starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay.
Rated PG-13