Doctor Zhivago - 2-DVD Set

Doctor Zhivago - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
235 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Giacomo Campiotti

Written By:
Andrew Davies (screenplay)
Boris Pasternak (novel)

Actors:
Hans Matheson ..... Yury Zhivago
Keira Knightley ..... Lara Antipova (neé Guishar)
Sam Neill ..... Victor Komarovsky
Alexandra Maria Lara ..... Tonya Gromyko Zhivago
Kris Marshall ..... Pasha Antipov/Strelnikov
Daniele Liotti ..... Misha Gordon
Bill Paterson ..... Alexander Gromyko
Celia Imrie ..... Anna Gromyko
Anne-Marie Duff ..... Olya Demina
Hugh Bonneville ..... Andrey Zhivago
Maryam d'Abo ..... Amalia Guishar
James Babson ..... Distraught Father
Daniella Byrne ..... Little Tonya
Jeremy Clyde ..... Professor
Roger Denesha ..... Dragoon Officer
Karel Dobry ..... Mayakovsky
David Fisher ..... Blok
Ryan James ..... Physician
Sam MacLintock ..... Little Yury
Robert Orr ..... Agitator
Anna Rust ..... Katya
Nick Stewart ..... Orthodox Priest
Jan Travnicek ..... Sasha Zhivago
Jan Unger ..... Vassya
Rick Warden ..... Liberius

Synopsis:

Young and beautiful Lara is loved by three men: a revolutionary, a mogul, and a doctor. Their lives become intertwined with the drama of Russian revolution. Doctor Zhivago is still married when he meets Lara. Their love story is unfolding against the backdrop of revolution which affects the doctor's career, his family, and his love to Lara.

Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning novel of love and betrayal amidst the Soviet Revolution is given a new interpretation for the small screen in this made-for-television adaptation. Yury Zhivago (Hans Matheson) is a young man who is sent to live with his aunt and uncle, Anna and Alexander Gromeko, (Celia Imrie and Bill Paterson) after his father takes his own life as a result of the machinations of his corrupt business partner, Victor Komarovsky (Sam Neill). As Zhivago grows to manhood and studies to be a physician, he falls in love with his cousin Tonya (Alexandra Maria Lara), but one day he sees a beautiful woman and immediately becomes deeply infatuated. Zhivago learns that the woman in question is Lara Guishar (Keira Knightley), whose mother is the lover of Komarovsky. Eventually, Zhivago marries Tonya, and Lara weds Pasha Antipov (Kris Marshall), a passionate Bolshevik. As World War I breaks out, Zhivago once again crosses paths with Lara, who has become a combat nurse and is searching for her missing husband. After Zhivago is severely wounded, Lara nurses him back to heath, and along the way the two fall deeply in love. However, after the end of the war, the reality of Zhivago's marriage to Tonya puts a halt to their romance, and the explosive impact of the Soviet Revolution changes the shape and character of the land they knew, especially when Lara discovers that her husband is not dead, but has become a powerful and calculating leader of the new regime. Doctor Zhivago had its American debut on the acclaimed PBS anthology series Masterpiece Theatre.

Doctor Zhivago is a 2002 British television serial directed by Giacomo Campiotti and starring Keira Knightley and Sam Neill. The teleplay by Andrew Davies is based on the 1957 novel of the same title by Boris Pasternak.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 14 September, 2006.

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