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The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Theatrical
Dec 31, 1965
Box Office
$111.9M
Budget
$11.0M
Return
10.2x
DVD / Blu-ray
Jul 28, 1998
Theaters
1
Director
David Lean
Writer
Robert Bolt
Producers
Arvid Griffen, Carlo Ponti
Music
Maurice Jarre
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Carlo Ponti Production
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Quotes
See all →Identity and Misunderstanding in Dialogue
The Girl
I'm not your niece, Comrade General.
The Challenge of Literary Appreciation
Yevgraf
This is a new edition of the Lara poems.
Engineer
Yes, I know. We admire your brother very much.
Yevgraf
Yes, everybody seems to.. now.
Engineer
Well, we couldn't admire him when we weren't allowed to read him...
Yevgraf
...No.
Impatience and Progress in Engineering
Engineer
If they were to give me two more excavators, I'd be a year ahead with the plan by now.
Yevraf
You're an impatient generation.
Engineer
Weren't you?
Yevgraf
Yes, we were. Very. Oh, don't be too impatient, Comrade Engineer; we've come very far, very fast.
Engineer
Yes, I know that Comrade General.
Yevgraf
Yes, but do you know what it cost..? There were children in those days who lived off human flesh, did you know that?
Reflection on a Tragic Historical Event
Gromeko
They've shot the Czar, and all his family. Oh, that's a savage deed.
Cast
Full credits →O
Omar Sharif
Dr. Yuri Zhivago
J
Julie Christie
Lara Antipova
G
Geraldine Chaplin
Tonya Gromeko
R
Rod Steiger
Viktor Komarovsky
A
Alec Guinness
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
T
Tom Courtenay
Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
S
Siobhán McKenna
Anna
R
Ralph Richardson
Alexander Gromeko
R
Rita Tushingham
The Girl
A
Adrienne Corri
Amelia
B
Bernard Kay
The Bolshevik
G
Geoffrey Keen
Medical Professor
K
Klaus Kinski
Kostoyed Amourski
G
Gérard Tichy
Liberius
N
Noel Willman
Razin, Liberius' Lieutenant
T
Tarek Sharif
Yuri at 8 Years Old
J
Jack MacGowran
Petya
M
Mark Eden
Engineer at dam
E
Erik Chitty
Sergei (Old Soldier)
R
Roger Maxwell
Beef-Faced Colonel
