Doctor Zhivago

Dir. David Lean. 1965, 197 mins. U.K. 35mm. With Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Tom Courtenay, Rita Tushingham. Following the seismic cultural event of his Lawrence of Arabia, grand-scale moviemaking became Lean’s forte in the sixties, and Doctor Zhivago is among his grandest triumphs. Trading Lawrence’s vast desert panoramas for a Russian winter spectacle, Zhivago is a complexly plotted, sophisticated adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s blockbuster novel, charting the love triangle amongst Sharif’s sensitive doctor Yuri, his wife Tonya (Chaplin), and the long-suffering Lara (Christie, acting in the same breakout year she won an Oscar for Darling), set against the Bolshevik Revolution. As emotionally involving as it is visually spectacular, the film features Oscar-winning cinematography from Freddie Young and score by Maurice Jarre.   

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