Doctor Zhivago
The movie covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago, 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.
23 February 1928, Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
8 October 1909, Potsdam, Germany
30 June 1901, London, England, UK
9 August 1904, Ipoh, Malaysia
8 July 1907, Dover, Kent, England, UK
4 August 1918, Londonderry, Ireland
13 October 1918, Dublin, Ireland
2 March 1940, Reinosa, Cantabria, Spain
November 26, 2015
Lean and Bolt pay tribute to a Tolstoyan ambition in Pasternak's samizdat novel, and also to a real contemporary relevance: the story of a suppressed writer.
August 13, 2007
One of the most meticulously designed and executed films.
December 22, 2016
Despite the grim and brooding background, Zhivago has a surging buoyant spirit that is unquenchable. Doctor Zhivago is more than a masterful motion picture; it is a life experience.
December 01, 2015
Maurice Jarre's music is as beguiling as ever and Lean squeezes all the pathos that he can out of the romance between Sharif's Yuri Zhivago and Julie Christie's febrile and gorgeous Lara Antipova.
August 24, 2008
Literate, oldfashioned, soul-filling and thoroughly romantic.
December 01, 2015
The best one can say of Doctor Zhivago is that it is an honest failure.
January 26, 2006
Steiger and Courtenay excepted, all the performances are very uncomfortable.
December 01, 2015
Epic seems too small a word for the sweeping ambition and romance of Doctor Zhivago.
August 13, 2007
David Lean's 1965 adaptation of Pasternak's romance of the Russian Revolution is intelligent and handsomely mounted, though it doesn't use its length to build to a particularly complex emotional effect.
November 27, 2015
This adaptation of Boris Pasternak's classic novel has all the sweep and stateliness that characterised David Lean's mastery of the epic.
April 29, 2016
One of those rare film adaptations which, unless you have already read the book, makes you wonder why anyone ever bothered to make the film at all.
November 24, 2015
Yes it's old-fashioned and sappy. But it's impossible not to swoon.
