The movie covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago, who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.
22 July 1914, Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary
26 October 1917, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
18 October 1926, Zoppot, Free City of Danzig [now Sopot, Pomorskie, Poland]
24 May 1923, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
8 February 1923, Paddington, London, England, UK
31 July 1944, Santa Monica, California, USA
2 March 1940, Reinosa, Cantabria, Spain
14 April 1925, Westhampton, New York, USA
21 August 1916, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
1 January 1900, London, England, UK
19 July 1933, UK
9 August 1904, Ipoh, Malaysia
13 October 1918, Dublin, Ireland
10 April 1932, Alexandria, Egypt
10 November 1919, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
30 June 1901, London, England, UK
July 14, 1923 in Marbella, Spain
4 August 1918, Londonderry, Ireland
2 April 1914, Marylebone, London, England, UK
13 June 1929, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
24 July 1940, East Gadsden, Alabama, USA
13 November 1930, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
8 October 1909, Potsdam, Germany
3 May 1903, Murcia, Murcia, Spain
21 November 1937, Czestochowa, Poland
April 29, 2016
One of those rare film adaptations which, unless you have already read the book, makes you wonder why anyone ever bothered to make the film at all.
August 24, 2008
Literate, oldfashioned, soul-filling and thoroughly romantic.
August 13, 2007
David Lean's 1965 adaptation of Pasternak's romance of the Russian Revolution is intelligent and handsomely mounted, though it doesn't use its length to build to a particularly complex emotional effect.
December 22, 2016
Despite the grim and brooding background, Zhivago has a surging buoyant spirit that is unquenchable. Doctor Zhivago is more than a masterful motion picture; it is a life experience.
August 13, 2007
One of the most meticulously designed and executed films.
December 01, 2015
Epic seems too small a word for the sweeping ambition and romance of Doctor Zhivago.
November 27, 2015
This adaptation of Boris Pasternak's classic novel has all the sweep and stateliness that characterised David Lean's mastery of the epic.
December 01, 2015
The best one can say of Doctor Zhivago is that it is an honest failure.
December 01, 2015
Maurice Jarre's music is as beguiling as ever and Lean squeezes all the pathos that he can out of the romance between Sharif's Yuri Zhivago and Julie Christie's febrile and gorgeous Lara Antipova.
November 26, 2015
Lean and Bolt pay tribute to a Tolstoyan ambition in Pasternak's samizdat novel, and also to a real contemporary relevance: the story of a suppressed writer.
November 24, 2015
Yes it's old-fashioned and sappy. But it's impossible not to swoon.
January 26, 2006
Steiger and Courtenay excepted, all the performances are very uncomfortable.
