Doctor Zhivago

Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin | Director: David Lean

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

Reviews (1)

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)

Cast (25)

Omar Sharif: Yuri

Julie Christie: Lara

Geraldine Chaplin: Tonya

Rod Steiger: Komarovsky

Alec Guinness: Yevgraf

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

Noel Willman: Razin

Geoffrey Keen: Medical Professor

Adrienne Corri: Amelia

Jack MacGowran: Petya

Mark Eden: Engineer at Dam

Erik Chitty: Old Soldier

Roger Maxwell: Beef-Faced Colonel

Wolf Frees: Delegate

Gwen Nelson: Female Janitor

Lucy Westmore: Katya

Lili Muráti: The Train Jumper

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Director

David Lean

Producer

Carlo Ponti

Writer

Robert Bolt (screenplay)

Boris Pasternak (novel)

Production companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Carlo Ponti Production

Sostar S.A.

Pictures (1)

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