Dr. Zhivago

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An Epic Love Story

If you can get your hands on it, one of the BEST movies ever made was " Dr. Zhivago" staring Omar Sharif,Julie Christie and Rod Steiger This is a 1965 Movie Classic.

It's a Sweeping epic about a Russian doctor pursuing the woman he loves during Russia's turbulent political changes of World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution and Communism's rise to power.

A large theme of the movie is how the mysticism of things and idealism is destroyed by both the Bolsheviks, Rebels and the white army. Yuri must witness cannibalism, dismemberment, and other horrors suffered by the innocent civilian population during the turmoil. 

It is a movie based on the Nobel prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak.After submission for publication to the ournal Noviy mir, it was rejected because of Pasternak's political incorrectness: the author was more concerned with the welfare of the individual person than with the welfare of the State. In 1957, the Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli smuggled the book manuscript from the Soviet Union and published a Russian-language edition in Milan, Italy. The next year, it was published in Italian and English translations, and these publications were partly responsible for Pasternak's being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. 

The Soviet government forced him to reject the Nobel Prize. Boris Pasternak died a few years later, of natural causes. The book was made into a film by David Lean in 1965 and has also been adapted numerous times for television, most recently as a miniseries for Russian TV in 2005. Won 5 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 10 nominations

[The film was shot in Spain during the regime of Gen. Francisco Franco. While the scene with the crowd chanting the Marxist theme was being filmed (at 3:00 in the morning), police showed up at the set thinking that a real revolution was taking place and insisted on staying until the scene was finished. Apparently, people who lived near where filming was taking place had awoken to the sound of revolutionary singing and had mistakenly believed that Franco had been overthrown.

The opening funeral march through the vast Siberian landscape, the grandeur of the Czarist Russian palaces, the march of the revolutionaries through the Moscow boulevards, the train ride,the Ice-covered interior of the Zhivago country estate the wealth of beauty captured in the cinematography of this film is astonishing. Julie Christie's Lara is one of those great screen persona's. She becomes a woman of such mysterious beauty. 

The final scene of Yuri's desperate attempt to reach her in the crowded Soviet Moscow is heartbreaking. And that music score!"Beautiful" The opening film credits with Jarre's genuinely beautiful music sets the mood for this great film. One of the best classic movies ever! A masterpiece!

 

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  • poddys Mar 2, 2009 @ 3:31 pm | delete
    Very nice lens, 5*****. I remember seeing this when it came out, I was only 10 years old, and much of the plot went over my head, however the events haunted me, and the beauty of the scenery and of course the theme music lingered ever since. A 3 hour film is a lot for a 10 year old... Yes it is a classic, probably time I saw it again.
  • AndyPo Dec 5, 2008 @ 8:48 am | delete
    Excellent lens about a real epic
  • d-artist Jun 22, 2008 @ 12:58 pm | delete
    Dr. Zhivago is one of my most favorite movies..I'm crazy about Omar Sharif also... Troika's have been my favorite subject to paint. My family had lived in Russia during the 1800's till the Revolution... 5*s
  • triathlontraining Jun 3, 2008 @ 3:09 pm | delete
    It's a favorite of mine too! Great job! :) 5*
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