Doctor Zhivago: The ScreenplayA Russian epic, traces the life of surgeon-poet Yuri Zhivago as he marries, raises a family, has his life totally disrupted by the first World War One and then by the Bolshevik Revolution. His life and freedom are torn from him as the new society makes demands. Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion, Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism. |
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... film and is an account of the film which we drew from the novel - the fullest possible account , being in effect the filmscript . If you love a novel very much it is perhaps a mistake to go to the film " of " it . You will be expecting ...
... film and is an account of the film which we drew from the novel - the fullest possible account , being in effect the filmscript . If you love a novel very much it is perhaps a mistake to go to the film " of " it . You will be expecting ...
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... film - maker cannot state these facts ; he must invent some way of showing them . And of every invention the reader of the novel who sees the film may rightly say : " That wasn't in the book . " Thirdly , the novelist can reflect upon ...
... film - maker cannot state these facts ; he must invent some way of showing them . And of every invention the reader of the novel who sees the film may rightly say : " That wasn't in the book . " Thirdly , the novelist can reflect upon ...
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... films , plays the part of Lara . Rounding out the cast of stars are : Tom Courtenay , among England's more important younger actors ; Alec Guinness , making his fifth appearance in a Lean - directed film ; Siobhan McKenna , product of ...
... films , plays the part of Lara . Rounding out the cast of stars are : Tom Courtenay , among England's more important younger actors ; Alec Guinness , making his fifth appearance in a Lean - directed film ; Siobhan McKenna , product of ...
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AMELIA ANNA balalaika begins BOLSHEVIK bunk child coat comes Comrade David Lean dear deserters Doctor Zhivago doorway ENGINEER EXTERIOR Gromeko EXTERIOR Railway EXTERIOR Varykino eyes face film floor front door Gently GIRL glances glass goes going hand head hear horse INTERIOR Lara's Apartment KATYA kisses KOMAROVSKY KOSTOYED LARA looks LARA Yes Larissa laugh Lawrence of Arabia leans LIBERIUS looks ahead looks back MEDICAL PROFESSOR MIKULITSIN MILITIAMAN Moscow mother moves Night nods NORMAN SAVAGE OLD SOLDIER partisans PASHA pause PHYLLIS DALTON platform Quietly RAZIN RED ARMY road ROBERT BOLT SASHA seated shakes shout shuts side silence sits sleigh smile snow Softly Sound stairs stares STATIONMASTER stops street Strelnikov suddenly train voice wagon walks watches White Guards window Winter Winter/Snow WOMAN YEVGRAF YURI and LARA YURI and TONYA YURI looks YURI rises YURI turns YURI Yes YURI's Yuriatin Zhivago