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Release Date:
22 December 1965 (USA)
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The entertainment event of the year! more
Plot:
Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 5 Oscars.
Another 15 wins
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10 nominations
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One of the Best Epic Films Ever Made
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Omar Sharif | ... | Dr. Yuri Zhivago |
 | Julie Christie | ... | Lara |
 | Geraldine Chaplin | ... | Tonya |
 | Rod Steiger | ... | Komarovsky |
 | Alec Guinness | ... | Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago |
| Tom Courtenay | ... | Pasha |
| Siobhan McKenna | ... | Anna |
| Ralph Richardson | ... | Alexander |
| Rita Tushingham | ... | The Girl |
| Jeffrey Rockland | ... | Sasha |
| Tarek Sharif | ... | Yuri at 8 years old |
| Bernard Kay | ... | The Bolshevik |
| Klaus Kinski | ... | Kostoyed |
| Gérard Tichy | ... | Liberius (as Gerard Tichy) |
| Noel Willman | ... | Razin |
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for mature themes.
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Runtime:
197 min | UK:192 min (1999 re-release) | UK:193 min | UK:200 min (1992 re-release)
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Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints) |
70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints) |
DTS (re-release) (35 mm prints) |
Mono (35 mm optical prints)
Certification:
Canada:A (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) |
Iceland:12 |
South Korea:12 |
Brazil:Livre |
West Germany:12 (f) |
USA:Approved (original rating) |
USA:GP (re-rating) (1971) |
Canada:PG (video rating) |
USA:PG-13 (re-rating) (1995) |
UK:15 (1987) |
UK:A (1966) |
UK:PG (1992) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:11
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In the scene where Julie Christie slaps Rod Steiger, Steiger slaps her back. Steiger slapping her back was not in the script or discussed during filming, Steiger did it only during filming and the stunned reaction of Christie was genuine. When Rod Steiger kisses Julie Christie for the first time, her struggling and surprise is genuine because Steiger deliberately French kissed her, sticking his tongue into her mouth.
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Factual errors: During protest parade the text on the banner reads "Svoboda i bratsvo" (Freedom and Fraternity), instead of "Svoboda i bratstvo".
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Quantum Leap: Double Identity - November 8, 1965 (#1.6)" (1989)
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Soundtrack:
Prelude in G minor, Op.23-5
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FAQ
How old were Lara and Yuri supposed to be at the beginning of the film?Who does Pasha tell Lara slashed his cheek during the "peaceful" demonstration?
Why did Lara shoot Komarovsky?
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I can't remember the origin of the quote, but I remember it distinctly. A Communist Party official of the Soviet Union, justifying the Bolshevik destruction of Tsarist Russia, told a foreign observer, `If you want to make an omelet, you've got to break some eggs.' The visitor replied, `I see the broken eggs, but Where's the omelet?' Dr. Zhivago is set at the time when the Bolsheviks, feverishly ideological, were creating their socialist state. The epochal drama that unfolds is the age-old question about whether the ends justify the means.
As materialists (matter precedes spirit, not vice versa), the Bolsheviks believed that they had found the holy grail of human progress in Marxism-Leninism, and were now able to assume the reins of history in their own hands. They believed that their violence was not only justified, but necessary, oblivious to the fact that they, too, somehow felt the angel of medieval teleology smiling over their shoulders.
In contrast to the Bolsheviks, Zhivago's ethos, if he had one, was almost identical to Kant's `categorical imperative,' which had just one axiom: treat people as ends in themselves, and not as ends to a mean. There couldn't be a sharper moral contrast.
There's a fabulous scene midway through the movie that highlights the difference in moral attitude. Dr. Zhivago confronts a communist functionary who has ordered the destruction of a village, a hamlet suspected of aiding the Mensheviks by selling them horses. To the Bolsheviks, if you weren't 100 percent behind them, you were a `counterrevolutionary,' sorta like Dubya's idea that you're either for us, or against us. And so Strelnikov, the passionate Bolshevik, glibly justifies his actions to Dr. Zhivago as easy as if he were tossing his hair aside, saying that the annihilation of the village, however cruel, is necessary to make a point. Zhivago replies: `Your point; their village.'
I love this film, a timeless epic. If there's a more beautiful heroine in all of movie-making history than Julie Christie (Lara), I'm not aware of it. And Omar Sharif is stunning as Iuri Zhivago, who heals the body with emetics, scalpels, antiseptic, and gauze, while he heals the soul with his poetry. Although the movie is three hours and 20 minutes long, the cinematography is so efficient, evocative, and densely layered that one hardly notices. This is, in my opinion, one of the best films of all time.