Top billed cast

1. 

   Omar Sharif

   Dr. Yuri Zhivago

2. 

   Julie Christie

   Lara Antipova

3. 

   Geraldine Chaplin

   Tonya Gromeko

4. 

   Rod Steiger

   Viktor Komarovsky

5. 

   Alec Guinness

   Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

6. 

   Tom Courtenay

   Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov

7. 

   Siobhán McKenna

   Anna

8. 

   Ralph Richardson

   Alexander Gromeko

9. 

   Rita Tushingham

   The Girl

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-04-02

David Lean has assembled an excellent cast and together with Maurice Jarre's memorable score and some sweeping cinematography from Freddie Young does considerable justice to the lengthy Pasternak tale of "Yuri" - a Russian physician (Omar Sharif). Alec Guinness, now a General in the Soviet army, takes on the mantle of narrator - using the expertly innocent Rita Tushingham as the conduit for the flashbacks - and gradually we discover that it's all a bit internecine at the start. "Yuri" falls in love with the enigmatic "Lara" (Julie Christie) who just happens to be the love interest for "Komarov...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$11,000,000.00

Revenue
$111,858,363.00

Keywords

• daughter
• based on novel or book
• love triangle
• nurse
• world war i
• suicide attempt
• loss of loved one
• forbidden love
• stepparents
• russian revolution (1917)
• 1910s
• condescending
• melodramatic
• metrocolor