Doctor Zhivago [45th Anniversary Edition] (Blu-ray + CD) PG-13
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 3 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 4, 2010
- Originally Released: 1965
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Omar Sharif & Julie Christie | |
Performer: | Geraldine Chaplin, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson, Rod Steiger, Rita Tushingham, Klaus Kinski, Adrienne Corri, Geoffrey Keen & Noel Willman | |
Directed by | David Lean | |
Edited by | Norman Savage | |
Written by | Robert Bolt | |
Composition by | Maurice Jarre | |
Cinematography by | Freddie Young | |
Art Direction by | Terence Marsh | |
Produced by | Carlo Ponti |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1965 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Robert Bolt
Academy Awards 1965 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Color): Not Applicable & Terence Marsh
Academy Awards 1965 -
Best Cinematography: Freddie Young
Academy Awards 1965 -
Best Costume Design (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1965 -
Best Original Score: Maurice Jarre
Entertainment Reviews:
One of those rare film adaptations which, unless you have already read the book, makes you wonder why anyone ever bothered to make the film at all.
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Guardian
Rating: 5/5 --
Lean and Bolt pay tribute to a Tolstoyan ambition in Pasternak's samizdat novel, and also to a real contemporary relevance: the story of a suppressed writer.
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Guardian
Epic seems too small a word for the sweeping ambition and romance of Doctor Zhivago.
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Times (UK)
...Unabashedly romantic and beloved by moviegoers around the world. Omar Sharif became an international superstar with his performance...
Los Angeles Times
Despite the grim and brooding background, Zhivago has a surging buoyant spirit that is unquenchable. Doctor Zhivago is more than a masterful motion picture; it is a life experience.
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Hollywood Reporter
4 stars out of 5 -- It boasts huge sets and great epic scenes....Lean delivers the heavy breathing through his choreography of extras, extraordinary cinematography and a stirring score.
Empire
...Breathtaking... -- 4 out of 5 stars
Total Film
Product Description:
David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an exploration of the Russian Revolution as seen from the point of view of the intellectual, introspective title character (Omar Sharif). As the political landscape changes, and the Czarist regime comes to an end, Dr. Zhivago's relationships reflect the political turmoil raging about him. Though he is married, the vagaries of war lead him to begin a love affair with the beautiful Lara (Julie Christie). But he cannot escape the machinations of a band of selfish and cruel characters: General Strelnikov (Tom Courtenay), a Bolshevik General; Komarovsky (Rod Steiger), Lara's former lover; and Yevgraf (Alec Guinness), Zhivago's sinister half-brother. This epic, sweeping romance, told in flashback, captures the lushness of Moscow before the war and the violent social upheaval that followed. The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak.
Keywords:
Politics
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War
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Love Story
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History
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Epic
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Recommended
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Period Piece
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema