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Doctor Zhivago (1965)

  • Rated PG 13
  • 3hr 17m
  • 69

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

David Lean

Producer:

Carlo Ponti

Writer:

Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt

Release Date:

Dec 22, 1965

Runtime:

3hr 17m

Synopsis

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.

Cast

  • Omar Sharif
  • Julie Christie
  • Geraldine Chaplin
  • Rod Steiger
  • Alec Guinness
  • Tom Courtenay
  • Siobhan McKenna
  • Ralph Richardson
  • Rita Tushingham
  • Jeffrey Rockland

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Metacritic

69
metacritic
Based on 14 Critics
8.2

USER SCORE (41)

Universal acclaim based on 41 Reviews
50

And this is the weakness of the film. Mr. Bolt has reduced the vast upheaval of the Russian Revolution to the banalities of a doomed romance.

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Metacritic review by Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther
The New York Times
75

So, yes, it's soppy and manipulative and mushy. But that train looks real enough to ride.

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
80

Stories about love in a world gone mad don't come any more gorgeous, or any more sweepingly epic, than this.

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Metacritic review by Ian Nathan
Ian Nathan
Empire
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