I give her to you - as a wedding present. There is the temptation to get so swept up in their idealism that we forget come on! Watching the film again, I found it hard to believe that the Chaplin character could be so understanding.
Later, when Komarovsky offers Lara an opportunity to save the life of herself and her child, call me a realist, but I thought she should have taken it. And the final pathetic scene, with Zhivago staggering after the woman on the Moscow street, is unforgivable.
So, yes, it's soppy and manipulative and mushy. But that train looks real enough to ride. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Yuri Omar Sharif as Dr. Julie Christie as Lara. Geraldine Chaplin as Tonya. Rod Steiger as Komarovsky. Reviews Doctor Zhivago. Roger Ebert April 07, Now streaming on:. Watch options. Storyline Edit. During the Russian Revolution, Dr.
Yuri Zhivago Omar Sharif is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar Julie Christie , who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky Rod Steiger , an unscrupulous businessman.
Yuri, however, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya Geraldine Chaplin. But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites. The entertainment event of the year! Rated PG for mature themes. Did you know Edit. One day, while filming the scene with the crowd chanting the Marxist theme at a. Apparently, people who lived nearby had awoken to the sound of revolutionary singing, and mistakenly believed that Franco had been overthrown.
The secret police surveyed the crowd as the extras sang the Internationale for a protest scene, so many extras pretended they didn't know the words. Goofs The little girl who plays Tonya at Yuri's mothers funeral starts to cross herself in the Roman Catholic manner, but quickly corrects herself and finishes in the Russian Orthodox style. Quotes Komarovski : Lara, I am determined to save you from a dreadful error. Lara : No. Lara : I am not! Alternate versions When it was first released, the film originally ran minutes.
Early in its run, David Lean and editor Norman Savage shortened it to minutes; this version was in circulation for years. By the mids, the uncut version was restored. Soundtracks Prelude in G minor, Op. User reviews Review. Top review. Classic Filmmaking. This was one of the last gasps of true epic film making, a story of human beings set against a vast historical panorama, made without any computer-generated images and featuring only people to keep your interest, with not a space alien or hobbit in sight.
Who can believe now that there was a time when that was sufficient? I first saw this film when I was 8 years old. Certainly I was not able at that time to understand all aspects and nuances of the story, but I was nonetheless mesmerized by the production: the sheer scope and spectacle of it, the absolutely glorious cinematography, the rich characters. It was unforgettable to me, and along with a few other films from that period like "The Sound of Music", fostered a lifelong love for movies.
For that alone, I have a soft spot in my heart for this film and will always be grateful for it and David Lean. So, I admit I'm prejudiced. I'm unabashedly in love with this movie, and find it hard to take criticism of it even when the rational part of me acknowledges that there might be some accuracy in it. We all have our weaknesses! Its especially blasphemous to me to hear anyone criticize Julie Christie as Lara - even as an 8 year old who wasn't too fond of girls, I thought she was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen and well, she's still right up there on my list!
For those people who question why Yuri would be with her when he was married to Tanya Is any further justification really needed?
As to the ingrate who slammed her performance and downgraded her subsequent career implying she had no talent, it has always been my impression from all I've read that Miss Christie has never been one of those to pursue stardom and her career at all costs.
She certainly had many opportunities to do splashy commercial films, but instead has had an interesting, long and varied career working in quality projects with many great filmmakers Truffaut, Schlesinger, Altman, Beatty, Lumet, Branagh, etc. Today, most cinema buffs of all stripes would agree that Zhivago is one of the classics of its genre.
How did this extravagant movie about the Russian Revolution shot during the Cold War and featuring two lesser-known stars come to break box-office records and merit frequent and enthusiastic reappraisal? Take a look at the story behind Doctor Zhivago. Before it became a film, of course, Doctor Zhivago had been a novel—one with quite an interesting and controversial history.
Its author, Boris Pasternak, was born into a literary environment in Moscow in His father was an illustrator who created illustrations for the work of family friend Leo Tolstoy.
Pasternak became a poet, and for a time, after his first book of poems was published in , he was one of the most famous poets in the Soviet Union. Russian author and Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak, circa Undeterred by censorship, Pasternak continued to write, longing to create a work on a grand scale in the vein of his idol Tolstoy. A real-life conflict between Pasternak, his wife, and his mistress inspired the love triangle that formed the heart of the book.
Pasternak viewed the completed work as primarily a romance novel, but when he tried to convince his Soviet publishers to publish it, they refused, branding it anti-Soviet because of its implicit criticism of the fallout of the Russian Revolution.
Fiercely proud of his work, Pasternak took the extremely risky step of having it smuggled out of the Soviet Union to be published in Italy. Despite many attempts from the Soviet authorities to prevent it, the book was published in Europe in and was an immediate hit. It was translated into English and dozens of other languages in , and Pasternak was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
It was at this point that the CIA got involved. Central Intelligence Agency was doing all in its power to undermine and discredit the Soviet regime. In their view, awarding a major prize to a writer regarded as disloyal could only serve to embarrass the Soviets in the eyes of the world.
The CIA secretly pressed for Pasternak to win the award which, in fairness, he had been routinely considered for since the late 40s , and he did. In the meantime, the CIA covertly printed Doctor Zhivago in Russian and had it smuggled into the Soviet Union, where it became an underground sensation. Despite the fact that Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize in private, very reluctantly , the Soviet authorities continued to vilify him and at one point considered expelling him from the country.
As one of the most popular novels of the late 50s, it was only natural that Hollywood should seek to transfer its oversized drama and passionate characters to celluloid. There was one man in particular who seemed ideally suited to the task of adapting such an expansive work: British director David Lean.
His signature epics were Lawrence of Arabia , about Arab partisan T. Both of these popular and critical successes won Oscars for Best Picture of the Year. American director, scenarist and film producer David Lean sitting at the camera on the Spanish set of the film 'Doctor Zhivago' directed by himself, Lean had read Doctor Zhivago in after finishing Lawrence of Arabia , and when producer Carlo Ponti suggested it as his next project, he was enthusiastic.
Instead, once the project began to get off the ground in , he went in a completely different direction. Ponti held no grudge. Lean, however, was impressed with young British actress Julie Christie, who had made a splash in her first major role in the kitchen sink drama Billy Liar with Tom Courtenay, who would also land a part in Zhivago.
For Zhivago, Lean made the somewhat more surprising choice of casting Omar Sharif, who had made such a strong impression in a supporting role in Lawrence of Arabia. Despite his many gifts as an actor, few on the project considered him the ideal choice for a Russian doctor and poet.
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