Dr. Zhivago The Ultimate Movie Classic - By: steamtown

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, dis-
memberment, 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 journal 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 translat-
ions, 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 astonish-
ing. 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
movie ever! A masterpiece!

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