Drama · Romance · War
Doctor Zhivago
Avg rating 7.7 / My rating TBC
1965 · Directed by David Lean · With Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin
- Historical Epic
- Melodrama
- Classical Hollywood
A Moscow doctor who writes poetry is pulled through war, revolution and civil war across Russia. Along the way his life crosses repeatedly with a young woman he cannot forget. David Lean's wide-screen romance sets private longing against the upheaval of a nation.
Film info
- Runtime
- 3h 20m · 200 min
- Format
- Colour, widescreen at roughly 2.20:1. It plays best on the largest screen available.
- IMDb
- 7.9 / 10 (86,506 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 82% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 69 / 100
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (audience, 1,323 votes)
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