Doctor Zhivago

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Omar Sharif

Geraldine Chaplin

David Lean

Carlo Ponti

Alec Guinness

Klaus Kinski

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Tom Courtenay

Rita Tushingham

Rod Steiger

Siobhan McKenna

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A doctor (Omar Sharif) falls in love with the mistress of a political opportunist.

Oscar-winning epic. A doctor and poet falls in love with the mistress of a political opportunist, but their romance is disrupted by the social upheaval surrounding them. 

Doctor and poet Yuri Zhivago is brought up in the family of Alexander Gromeko, whose daughter Tonya he eventually marries. 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 Oscar-winning epic set in revolutionary Russia, based on the novel by Boris Pasternak.

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