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Doctor Zhivago

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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3 hours, 3 minutes

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Mon 22 Dec 202514:55
BBC Two

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Yuri ZhivagoOmar Sharif
TonyaGeraldine Chaplin
DirectorDavid Lean
ProducerCarlo Ponti
YevgrafAlec Guinness
KostoyedKlaus Kinski
LaraJulie Christie
Pasha/StrenikovTom Courtenay
The GirlRita Tushingham
KomarovskyRod Steiger
AnnaSiobhan McKenna
AlexanderRalph Richardson
WriterRobert Bolt
SashaJeffrey Rockland
The BolshevikBernard Kay

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