Film

Doctor Zhivago

1965 · 3h 20m · Drama · Romance · War

A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution

IMDb

7.9

Rotten Tomatoes

82%

Metacritic

69

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.

Omar Sharif

Dr. Yuri Zhivago

Julie Christie

Lara Antipova

Geraldine Chaplin

Tonya Gromeko

Rod Steiger

Viktor Komarovsky

Alec Guinness

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

Tom Courtenay

Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov

Siobhán McKenna

Anna

Ralph Richardson

Alexander Gromeko

Rita Tushingham

The Girl

Adrienne Corri

Amelia

Bernard Kay

The Bolshevik

Geoffrey Keen

Medical Professor

Klaus Kinski

Kostoyed Amourski

Jeffrey Rockland

Sasha

Gérard Tichy

Liberius

Noel Willman

Razin, Liberius' Lieutenant

• David LeanDirector
• Robert BoltScreenplay
• Boris PasternakNovel
• Carlo PontiProducer
• Arvid GriffenExecutive Producer
• Freddie YoungDirector of Photography
• Maurice JarreOriginal Music Composer
• Norman SavageEditor
• Irene HowardCasting

2015 BFI Release TrailerOriginal Theatrical Trailer

Release date

December 22, 1965

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

3h 20m

Rated

PG-13

Budget

$11,000,000

Revenue

$111,858,363

Genres

Drama, Romance, War

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