A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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Earnest, grave, epic and contemplative.
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- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20237/10
David Lean has assembled an excellent cast and together with Maurice Jarre's memorable score and some sweeping cinematography from Freddie Young does considerable justice to the lengthy Pasternak tale of "Yuri" - a Russian physician (Omar Sharif). Alec Guinness, now a General in the Soviet army, takes on the mantle of narrator - using the expertly innocent Rita Tushingham as the conduit for the flashbacks - and gradually we discover that it's all a bit internecine at the start. "Yuri" falls in love with the enigmatic "Lara" (Julie Christie) who just happens to be the love interest for "Komarovsky" (Rod Steiger) who would sell his own mother, he is certainly cheating on her's. Frustrated on that front, he ends up marrying his own cousin "Tonya" (Geraldine Chaplin) but with the end of the Great war looming and the October Revolution subsequently reducing the country to war-torn chaos, nothing is simple as families are split asunder trying to flee the guns and bullets. It turns out that "Lara" ended up marrying Communist big-wig "Pasha" (Tom Courtenay) but the war put paid to that relationship and when "Yuri" discovers this he wonders what might have been! This is a collection of love
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Cast
- Omar SharifDr. Yuri Zhivago
- Julie ChristieLara Antipova
- Geraldine ChaplinTonya Gromeko
- Rod SteigerViktor Komarovsky
- Alec GuinnessGen. Yevgraf Zhivago
- Tom CourtenayPasha Antipov / Strelnikov
- Siobhán McKennaAnna
- Ralph RichardsonAlexander Gromeko
- Rita TushinghamThe Girl
- Adrienne CorriAmelia
Crew
- David LeanDirector
- Robert BoltScreenplay
- Boris PasternakNovel
- Freddie YoungDirector of Photography
- Maurice JarreOriginal Music Composer
- Norman SavageEditor
- Carlo PontiProducer
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