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.
Cinematography
Freddie Young's snowscapes are unreal.
Production
They built an entire Moscow street in Spain.
Score
Maurice Jarre's 'Lara's Theme' lives rent-free.
Director
David Lean
Omar Sharif
Dr. Yuri Zhivago
Julie Christie
Lara Antipova
Geraldine Chaplin
Tonya Gromeko
Rod Steiger
Viktor Komarovsky
Alec Guinness
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Tom Courtenay
Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
Siobhán McKenna
Anna
Ralph Richardson
Alexander Gromeko
Rita Tushingham
The Girl
Adrienne Corri
Amelia
Bernard Kay
The Bolshevik
Geoffrey Keen
Medical Professor
Klaus Kinski
Kostoyed Amourski
Gérard Tichy
Liberius
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'ice palace' was filmed in Soria, Spain during a record heatwave—cast wore fur in 90°F weather.
Banned in the USSR until 1994; Pasternak's novel won the Nobel Prize which the Soviets forced him to decline.
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