
A Farewell to Arms(1957)
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.


“A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution”
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
Doctor Zhivago is a drama, romance, war film released in 1965 exploring themes of daughter, based on novel or book, love triangle, nurse, world war i, suicide attempt. Directed by David Lean, it stars Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin. 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.
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