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director: David Lean

producer: Carlo Ponti

writer: Robert Bolt

source writer: Boris Pasternak

cinematographer: Freddie Young

editor: Norman Savage

composer: Maurice Jarre

production designer: John Box

art director: Terence Marsh

special effects: Eddie Fowlie

set designer: Dario Simoni

costume designer: Phyllis Dalton

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principal cast:

Omar Sharif (Yuri Zhivago)

Julie Christie (Lara Antipova)

Geraldine Chaplin (Tonya)

Rod Steiger (Komarovsky)

Alec Guinness (Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago)

Tom Courtenay (Pasha/Strelnikov)

Siobhan McKenna (Anna)

Ralph Richardson (Alexander Gromeko)

Rita Tushingham (The Girl)

Jeffrey Rockland (Sasha)

Tarek Sharif (Yuri: younger)

Bernard Kay (Bolshevik)

Klaus Kinski (Kostoyed)

Gérard Tichy (Liberius)

Noel Willman (Razin)

Geoffrey Keen (Professor Kurt)

Adrienne Corri (Amelia)

Jack MacGowran (Petya)

Mark Eden (Engineer at Dam)

Erik Chitty (Old Soldier)

Roger Maxwell (Beef-Faced Colonel)

Wolf Frees (Delegate)

Gwen Nelson (Female Janitor)

Lucy Westmore (Katya)

Lili Muráti (Train Jumper)

Peter Madden (Political Officer)

Inigo Jackson (Major)

Gerhard Jersch (David)

Assad Bahador (Colonel of Dragoons)

José Nieto (Priest)

Ricardo Palacios (Extra)

Virgilio Teixeira (Captain)

José María Caffarel (Militiaman)

Emilio Carrer (Mr. Sventytski)

Maria Martin (Gentlewoman)

Ingrid Pitt (Extra)

Mercedes Ruiz (Tonya at 7)

Brigitte Trace (Streetwalker)

María Vico (Demented Woman)

Luana Alcañiz (Mrs. Sventytski)

Catherine Ellison (Raped Woman)

Pilar Gómez Ferrer

format: Colour

length: 200 minutes

released: 1965

q u o t e s   f r o m   d o c t o r   z h i v a g o  :

Lara: Wouldn't it have been lovely if we'd met before?
Zhivago: Before we did? Yes.
Lara: We'd have got married, had a house and children. If we'd had children, Yuri, would you like a boy or girl?
Zhivago: I think we may go mad if we think about all that.
Lara: I shall always think about it.

Komarovski: Who are you to refuse my sugar? Who are you to refuse me anything?

Komarovski: I think you do. There's another kind. Not high-minded, not pure, but alive. Now, that your tastes at this time should incline towards the juvenile is understandable; but for you to marry that boy would be a disaster. Because there's two kinds of women. There are two kinds of women and you, as we well know, are not the first kind. You, my dear, are a slut.

Komarovski: There are two kinds of men and only two. And that young man is one kind. He is high-minded. He is pure. He's the kind of man the world pretends to look up to, and in fact despises. He is the kind of man who breeds unhappiness, particularly in women. Do you understand?

Engineer: If they were to give me two more excavators, I'd be a year ahead of the plan by now.
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: You're an impatient generation.
Engineer: Weren't you?
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Yes, we were, very. Oh, don't be so impatient, Comrade Engineer. We've come very far, very fast.
Engineer: Yes, I know that, Comrade General.
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Yes, but do you know what it cost? There were children in those days who lived off human flesh. Did you know that?

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Tonya, can you play the balalaika?
Engineer: Can she play? She's an artist!
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Ah, then it's a gift.

Gromeko: Good marriages are made in heaven . . . or some such place.

Gromeko: What I want to know is how we're going to stay alive this winter.

Pasha: They rode them down, Lara. Women and children, begging for bread. There will be no more 'peaceful' demonstrations.

Zhivago: "What happens to a girl like that, when a man like you is finished with her?"
Komarovski: "You interested?"
Zhivago: "You shouldn't smoke. You've had a shock." (Pulls cigar from his mouth, drops it in the toilet.)
Komarovski: "I give her to you, Yuri Andreavich. Wedding present."

speaking to Lara of Pasha

Old Soldier: The doctor's a gentleman.
Petya: Right! It's written all over him.
Old Soldier: He's a good man.
Petya: God wrought good men.

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