The 1965 film Doctor Zhivago, directed by David Lean, is a sweeping romantic epic based on Boris Pasternak’s Nobel Prize-winning novel. Set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, the movie ...
“Masterpiece Theatre” host Russell Baker describes Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel “Doctor Zhivago” as a story resembling a Grimm fairy tale, in which innocents get lost in the woods and confront ...
As winter approaches, a scene from the 1965 film *Doctor Zhivago* inevitably comes to mind. The roof is buried under heavy snow, and the interior reveals an icy, frost-covered villa. Zhivago, fleeing ...
During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), 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 ...
In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles in the movie.
To most people, “Doctor Zhivago” means Julie Christie as Lara and Omar Sharif as Yuri in the swoonily romantic 1965 film. Fewer people know the true story of passion, espionage and propaganda behind ...