Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt. It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922, and is based on the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel. The book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades, so the film was filmed mostly in Spain. At the 38th Academy Awards, it won five Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. It also won five awards at the 23rd Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Omar Sharif.
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Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt. It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922, and is based on the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel. The book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades, so the film was filmed mostly in Spain. At the 38th Academy Awards, it won five Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. It also won five awards at the 23rd Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Omar Sharif. As of 2016, it is the eighth highest-grossing film of all time in the United States and Canada, adjusted for ticket-price inflation. In 1998, it was ranked by the American Film Institute 39th on their 100 Years… 100 Movies list, and by the British Film Institute the following year as the 27th greatest British film ofAll time. The film is mostly set against a backdrop of World War II, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and theRussian Civil War. A narrative framing device, set in the late 1940s or early 1950s, involves KGB Lieutenant General Yevgraf Andreyevich Zhvago searching for the daughter of his half-brother, Doctor Yuri AndreyEVich Zhivaga, and Larissa Antipova. It was nominated for five Oscars, but lost four of these five to The Sound of Music.
The supporting cast includes Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay, Ralph Richardson, Siobhán McKenna and Rita Tushingham. The movie is one of the top ten highest- grossing films worldwide after adjusting for inflation. It has been called the “most influential film of the 20th century” by The New York Review of Books. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1965 for the role of Omar Sharif, who played the title character, Yuri Zhvaga, a married physician in Russia at the time of the Revolution. The novel was immensely popular in the West, but was banned by the Soviets for decades. For this reason, the film could not be made in theSoviet Union and was instead filmed in Spain, where it was shot mostly in the 1950s and 1960s. The story follows the life of Dr. Yuri Zhovago and his love interest Lara Antipov, a young woman who becomes involved with her mother’s friendlover, the older well-connected Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky. After the Revolution, Lara becomes engaged to Pasha, a reformer. When Pasha marries Lara, she takes her on as a nurse, and they eventually have a daughter, Katya. During the next six months, they serve at a hospital in Moscow, during which time they ensue as radical changes throughout Russia.
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