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Dr
Zhivago is a story of love in the middle of the Russian revolution. It shows us how anyone morals can be
questioned at anytime.
Docter
Zhivago is an adaptation of a Boris Pasternak novel. I have a first run production of the book
by Fontana Monarchy.
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The beginning of the film sees the Yuri’s brother Yevgraf Zhivago,played by Alex Guiness, talking to a young
women. He tells her that she’s the
daughter of Yuri Zhavago. He starts
to tell her how her mother met Yuri and that’s when the films flash back
starts.
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Yuri
returns from Europe to his family and childhood sweet heart (Tonya). Whilst in Europe Yuri has been learning to
be a doctor. Tonya and Yuri spend a
lot of time together and eventually get married.
One
day at a party that his Senior doctor is attacked and almost killed by a
woman called Lara. Dr Zhivago stops
this woman doing something stupid. It
turns out that she was having an affair with the senior doctor and wanted
revenge for just being chucked out like yesterdays paper. Doctor Zhivago goes with her to see her
ill mother a few times and then that’s the last we see of her for a while.
The
revolution starts and Lara marries a man called Pasha who is a staunch
supporter of the revolution and is an enemy of the state that at the time was
ruled with an iron fist. Pasha gets
hurt in a march and hides in Laras house.
He uses iodine to stop the cut getting infected and it leave the scare
on the man in the background of this review.
The
revolution is successful in the local area that Yuri and Tonya live and they
are made to share their house with many people. There is a point in the film when Yuri leaves the room the
family now reside in and returns to find that the fire has been turned
off. He finds out that things are a
lot worse than he thought. He goes
out to steel some wood and on his return, he comes into contact with Yevgraf
for the first time; not knowing the fact that he is his brother.
After
that the family leave the city they live in and go to live in the
countryside. They seem happy but
later on Yuri who gets lost id recruited into the local resistance army and a
long while after that happens he get left behind in a raid. (Lara eventually
leave Pasha and that is when she goes and lives in this house that Yuri finds
her in). As Yuri is walking; he spots a house and Lara is the owner of the
house. They become lovers and live
together. Yuri eventually remembers
that he’s married and goes back to the old house to find that it is empty as
he left it. All that is left is
memories of a time that has past.
Yuri
meets up with Tonya who meets Lara and tell him that her children and herself
were going to live in Europe.
I’m
not quite sure what happens next but they show Yuri old and frail. He sees Lara for the final time and tries
to chase after her and dies.
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