Doctor Zhivago (1965) | reviewed by: Scott Crick | February 12, 2012
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Hailed as a masterpiece, this film is compelling, beautiful, and wonderfully acted. Long enough you may need two sessions to see it all.
| genre | Drama | History | Romance |
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| synopsis | Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Kristie play two protagonists who in fact love each other yet because of their current situation cannot find a way be together. |
| lead actors | Omar Sharif | Julie Christie | Geraldine Chaplin | Rod Steiger | Alec Guinness | Tom Courtenay | Siobhan McKenna | Ralph Richardson | Gérard Tichy | Noel Willman | Jack MacGowran | Mark Eden | Erik Chitty | Klaus Kinski |
| director | David Lean |