Doctor Zhivago Family Review

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.During the Russian Revolution, Dr. Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar (Julie Christie), who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky (Rod Steiger), an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, however, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin). But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites.—Jwelch5742Lara (Julie Christie) inspires lechery in Victor Komarovsky (Rod Steiger) (her mother's lover who is a master at surviving whoever runs Russia) and can't compete with passion for the revolution of the man she marries, Pasha (Sir Tom Courtenay). Her true love is Dr. Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), who also loves his wife. Lara is the one who inspires poetry. The story is narrated by Zhivago's half brother Yevgraf (Sir Alec Guinness), who has made his career in the Soviet Army. At the beginning of the movie, he is about to meet a young woman he believes may be the long lost daughter of Lara and Zhivago.—Dale O'Connor <[email protected]>Set just before and in the years following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the movie follows the life of Dr. Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) as he marries, raises a family, has his life totally disrupted by World War I, and then by the Revolution. Shown against the epic of a world turned on its head, his life and freedom are torn from him as the new society makes demands.—John Vogel <[email protected]>A Russian epic, this movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Dr. Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, 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 amidst the spirit of collectivism.—<[email protected]>