Director David Lean brings to the screen the thrilling story and the unforgettable characters created in the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Boris Paternak. The life and loves of Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), doctor and poet, are told against the great tide of the Russian Revolution. For its expanse and majesty the story is always profoundly human.

"It is a work of serious genuine art."

- Richard Schickel, LIFE

"At once generous yet austere, huge but never out of human scale, gently unfolded yet full of power, it is a work of serious genuine art."

- Richard Schickel, LIFE

"DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is perhaps the most ambitious film of the year. Mr. Lean's camera eye is a panoramic one with shades of Lawrence in the barren beauties he finds in the frozen northlands or the lushness of sunset frozen horizons."

- Judith Crist, NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE

Winner of 5 Academy Awards®