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Doctor Zhivago

Director: David Lean
Writer: Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt
Producer: Arvid Griffen, Carlo Ponti
Theatrical: 1965
Rated: PG-13
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Genre: Art House & International
Duration: 197
Media: DVD
Collection ID: 646
IMDb: 0059113
DVD Details
Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1, Commentary by Omar Sharif, Rod Steiger and the director's wife Sandra Lean, French, Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Sound: Dolby
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Discs: 2
Region: 1
Release:Nov 2001
Price: $26.98
Credits
Dr. Yuri Zhivago
Omar Sharif
Lara Antipova
Julie Christie
Tonya Gromeko
Geraldine Chaplin
Viktor Komarovsky
Rod Steiger
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Alec Guinness
Pasha
Tom Courtenay
Anna
Siobhan McKenna
Alexander Gromeko
Ralph Richardson
The Girl
Rita Tushingham
Sasha
Jeffrey Rockland
Yuri at 8
Tarek Sharif
Bolshevik
Bernard Kay
Kostoyed Amourski
Klaus Kinski
Liberius (as Gerard Tichy)
Gérard Tichy
Razin, Liberius' Lieutenant
Noel Willman
Medical Professor
Geoffrey Keen
Amelia
Adrienne Corri
Petya
Jack MacGowran
Engineer at Dam
Mark Eden
Old Soldier
Erik Chitty
Beef-Faced Colonel
Roger Maxwell
Delegate
Wolf Frees
Female Janitor
Gwen Nelson
Katya
Lucy Westmore
The Train Jumper (as Lili Murati)
Lili Muráti
Political Officer
Peter Madden
David
Gerhard Jersch
Summary
David Lean focused all his talent as an epic-maker on Boris Pasternak's sweeping novel about a doctor-poet in revolutionary Russia. The results may sometimes veer toward soap opera, especially with the screen frequently filled with adoring close-ups of Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, but Lean's gift for cramming the screen with spectacle is not to be denied. The streets of Moscow, the snowy steppes of Russia, the house in the country taken over by ice; these are re-created with Lean's unerring sense of grandness. The movie is so lush and so long that it becomes an irresistible wallow, even when logic suffers--like "Gone with the Wind" before it and "Titanic" after. Sharif, who achieved stardom in Lean's previous film, "Lawrence of Arabia", mostly looks noble, but the supporting cast is spiky: Rod Steiger as a fat-cat monster, Tom Courtenay as a self-righteous revolutionary, and Klaus Kinski and Alec Guinness in smaller roles. Geraldine Chaplin, in her adult debut, plays the doctor's compliant wife. Robert Bolt's screenplay won one of the film's five Oscars, with another going to perhaps the most immediately recognizable element of the movie: Maurice Jarre's romantic music, with its hugely popular "Lara's Theme" weaving in and out of a swooning score. "--Robert Horton"