Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 200 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- Italy, United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- daughter
- based on novel or book
- love triangle
- nurse
- world war i
- suicide attempt
- loss of loved one
- forbidden love
- stepparents
- russian revolution (1917)
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Omar Sharif
Dr. Yuri Zhivago
Julie Christie
Lara Antipova
Geraldine Chaplin
Tonya Gromeko
Rod Steiger
Viktor Komarovsky
- Alec Guinness — Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
- Tom Courtenay — Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
- Siobhán McKenna — Anna
- Ralph Richardson — Alexander Gromeko
- Rita Tushingham — The Girl
- Adrienne Corri — Amelia
- Bernard Kay — The Bolshevik
- Geoffrey Keen — Medical Professor
- Klaus Kinski — Kostoyed Amourski
- Jeffrey Rockland — Sasha
- Gérard Tichy — Liberius
- Directed
- David Lean
- Written
- Robert Bolt
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 1,286 ratings
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Carlo Ponti Production
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
