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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... David Lean , who directed Great Ex- pectations and Brief Encounter , and whose last two films , Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia , received fourteen Academy Awards , read the novel , and said he felt certain that Doctor ...
... David Lean , who directed Great Ex- pectations and Brief Encounter , and whose last two films , Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia , received fourteen Academy Awards , read the novel , and said he felt certain that Doctor ...
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... David Lean and I did on this film . We fought our way line by line and even sometimes shot by shot from one end of the screenplay to the other , many times over . The result goes under my name but is really our joint effort . XV THE ...
... David Lean and I did on this film . We fought our way line by line and even sometimes shot by shot from one end of the screenplay to the other , many times over . The result goes under my name but is really our joint effort . XV THE ...
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... David Lean , who directed Great Ex- pectations and Brief Encounter , and whose last two films , Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia , received fourteen Academy Awards , read the novel , and said he felt certain that Doctor ...
... David Lean , who directed Great Ex- pectations and Brief Encounter , and whose last two films , Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia , received fourteen Academy Awards , read the novel , and said he felt certain that Doctor ...
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ALEXANDER AMELIA ANNA balalaika begins BOLSHEVIK bunk child coat comes Comrade David Lean Doctor Zhivago ENGINEER EXTERIOR Gromeko EXTERIOR Railway EXTERIOR Varykino eyes face film floor Gently GERALDINE CHAPLIN GIRL glass goes going hand head hear horse INTERIOR Lara's Apartment John Box KATYA kisses KOMAROVSKY KOSTOYED LARA looks LARA Yes laugh Lawrence of Arabia Lean LIBERIUS looks ahead looks back MADAME SVENTYTSKI MAURICE JARRE MEDICAL PROFESSOR MIKULITSIN MILITIAMAN Moscow mother moves Night nods NORMAN SAVAGE novel OLD SOLDIER partisans PASHA Pasternak's pause PHYLLIS DALTON platform Quietly RAZIN RED ARMY road ROBERT BOLT SASHA seated shout shut side silence sits sleigh smile snow Softly Sound stairs stares STATIONMASTER stops street Strelnikov TOM COURTENAY train voice wagon walks watches window Winter/Snow WOMAN YEVGRAF YURI and LARA YURI and TONYA YURI looks YURI rises YURI turns YURI Yes YURI's Yuriatin