Bibliograph

Doctor Zhivago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Carlo Ponti production, David Lean's film ; produced by Carlo Ponti ; screenplay by Robert Bolt ; directed by David Lean

Type

Label

Doctor Zhivago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Carlo Ponti production, David Lean's film ; produced by Carlo Ponti ; screenplay by Robert Bolt ; directed by David Lean

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

resource.interestAgeLevel

MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature themes

Main title

Doctor Zhivago

Medium

videorecording DVD

Responsibility statement

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Carlo Ponti production, David Lean's film ; produced by Carlo Ponti ; screenplay by Robert Bolt ; directed by David Lean

Runtime

200

Summary

Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Dr. ZhivagoBoris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago

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