The epic love story set in revolutionary Russia starring Omar Sharif as Yuri Zhivago, Julie Christie as Lara, Geraldine Chaplin as Tonya, Rod Steiger as Komarovsky, Alec Guinness as Yergraf, Tom Courtenay as Pasha/Strelnikov, Ralph Richardson as Alexander

Doctor and poet Yuri Zhivago is brought up in the family of Alexander Gromeko, whose daughter Tonya he marries after graduating. But his true love is for the passionate and beautiful Lara, the mistress of a political opportunist. With the outbreak of the Great War, and with Moscow transformed by the Revolution, their romance is disrupted by the social upheaval surrounding them. David Lean's stirring film is based on the classic novel by Boris Pasternak, published for the first time in the Soviet Union last year.

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(Ceefax subtitles)