It is a historical romantic movie of 1965, which was directed by David Lean, who was the director of name and fame of those periods. The screenplay was done by Robert Bolt. Production was contributed by Carlo Ponti. The story of the film was based on a popular novel, ‘Doctor Zhivago’ by Boris Pasternak. The film casts Omar Shariff as the main lead, Yuri Zhivago, who is a practitioner as a physician and a poet whose life is altered by the Russian Revolution and subsequent civil war. So Dr. Zhivago Filming Locations wander around the battlegrounds. Julie Christie plays besides Omar Shariff as his love interest Lara Antipova. Geraldine Chaplin, who is the daughter of Charlie Chaplin also enacted in this film.
Tom Courtney who was nominated for the best supporting role of this film, and Alec Guinness, Siobhán McKenna, Ralph Richardson, Rod Steiger, Rita Tushingham, played the supporting roles in the film. Music was composed by Maurice Jarre. Metro Goldwyn Mayer -British Studios, a production house who also a distributor of this film. Carlo Ponti Production house, which belonged to Carlo Ponti, an Italian producer, and Sostar S.A is the other production houses of the film. It was released in various countries like the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. The budget for the film was 11 million dollars.
The film was immensely popular in the west, whereas in the Soviet Union, it was banned for decades due to this reason, it was not filmed in the Soviet Union instead was mostly filmed in Spain. It is an Oscar-winning film at the 38th Academy Awards for five aspects of the movie are Best adapted screenplay, Best Original Score, Best cinematography by Freddie Young, Best art direction, and Best costume design. In 1998, It was ranked in 39 positions by the American Film Institute. By 2016, It was recognized as the eighth highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada. In the same year, it was framed as the 27th greatest British movie of that time by the British Film Institute.
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Filming Locations of Dr. Zhivago:
The film is released as two parts and filming locations of Dr Zhivago are 30 in number which are as follows: Morley Flats, Alberta, Canada (Frozen house longshots) Alberta, Canada (stock railroad footage) Heinävaara, Kiihtelysvaara, Finland Helsinki, Finland Koli, Lieksa, Finland Estudios CEA, Madrid, Spain (interiors) Granada, Andalucía, Spain Joensuu, Finland Barajas, Madrid, Spain Guadix, Granada, Andalucía, Spain (train scenes) Punkaharju, Finland Canillas, Madrid, Spain (Moskva street outdoor set) Punkasalmi, Finland Pyhäselkä, Saimaa, Finland Soria, Castilla y León, Spain (Urals exteriors) Pyhäselkä, Joensuu, Finland Aldeadávila de la Ribera, Salamanca, Spain (Salamanca, España) Parque de El Capricho, Madrid, Madrid, Spain Presa de Aldeadávila, Salamanca, Castilla y León, Spain (dam) Covaleda, Soria, Castilla y León, Spain (forest) Matamala de Almazán, Soria, Castilla y León, Spain (Varikino train station) Estación de Delicias, Madrid.
Spain (Moscow train station) Villaseca de Arciel, Soria, Castilla y León, Spain (train across snowy landscape) Candilichera, Soria, Castilla y León. Spain (Varikino exteriors) Villar del Campo, Soria, Castilla y León, Spain (train passing across burnt village) Soria. Soria, Castilla y León, Spain (Soria-Cañuelo station as Yuriatin train station) Vinuesa, Soria, Castilla y León, Spain (Yuriatin seen burning from afar) Canada, Spain and Finland
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Plot Explained:
The film starts with a scene in which it is shown that during World War 1, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian civil war involves general Andreyevich Zhivago, who is in the search for the daughter of his half-brother, Dr. Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago, and Larissa (Lara)Antipova. He believes that Tanya Komarova to be his niece and started describing his father s life. After his mother s funeral, a child whose name was Yuri Zhivago become an orphan and was adopted by a family of Alexander and Anna Gromeko in Moscow. He reunited with Gromeko s daughter Tanya when she returns to Moscow after her schooling in Paris. They went crazy about each other and got engaged.
Lara is seduced by her mother’s old lover, Victor Komarovsky. One night, Lara s friend Pasha Antipov got wounded in a violent attack on civil war. Pasha goes to Lara, who is passionate to marry her, treats his wounds, and asks her to hide a gun that was used during an attack. After knowing her daughter s affair with Komarovsky, she attempts suicide. Later, Komarovsky summons Zhivango and attempts to avoid Lara from marrying Pasha. When she refuses, he rapes her. Humiliated, Lara takes Pasha s gun and follows him to a Christmas party, where she shoots him. Komarovsky insists not to take any action against her later she was escorted by Pasha. Meanwhile, Zhivago treats Komarovsky’s wounds. Pasha marries Lara and gave birth to a child named Katya.
Conclusion of Dr. Zhivago:
During World War I, Yuri, now married to Tonya, is turns to be a battlefield doctor. Pasha, unsatisfied in his marriage to Lara, joins up but is reported missing following an attack on German forces. Lara makes a get-up as a nurse to search for him. Yuri encounters Lara and takes her on as his nurse. For the next six months, they serve at a field hospital, during which changes come throughout Russia as Vladimir Lenin returns from exile to Moscow. Before they depart from the hospital, Zhivago and Lara fall in love, though Zhivago remains faithful to Tonya.
After the war, Yuri returns to Tonya, their son Alexander (Sasha), and the now-widowed Alexander Gromyko. They are still living in what had been their Moscow house, but it has been confiscated by the new Soviet government and divided into tenements. Yevgraf, now a member of the Cheka, informs Yuri that his poems have been condemned as opposite to Communism. Fearing Zhivago will ultimately incriminate himself through his poetry, Yevgraf provides Yuri documents to leave Moscow and travel to the Gromekos’ country home, “Varykino”, located in the Ural Mountains. The family boards a train, bound to be traveling through contested territory that is secured by the Bolshevik commander, Strelnikov, formerly known as Pasha Antipov.
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