Doctor Zhivago

Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin

A Moscow doctor is caught up in World War I, exiled for writing poetry, forced into partisan service and separated from his only love

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Beautifully photographed and meticulously directed, this complex epic has been so reduced from the original novel that many parts of the script simply do not make any kind of sense. What remains is a collection of expensive set-pieces, great for looking if not listening. (Halliwell’s)