Thursday, September 19, 2019

Director David Lean’s cinematic masterpiece, it’s the epic tale of a sensitive Russian physician, who is torn between his loyal, long-suffering wife and the great love of his life. Set during the Russian Revolution, Dr. Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar (Julie Christie), who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky (Rod Steiger), an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, however, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin). But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites. It won five Oscars in 1966, coming three years after Lean’s other lengthy Oscar-winning spectacle “Lawrence of Arabia,” which also featured Omar Sharif.