Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak. It has remained popular for decades, and as of 2010 is the eighth highest grossing film of all time in the United States, adjusted for inflation. The film takes place, for the most part, during the tumultuous period of 1912–1923, the years which included World War I, the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War, as the regime of Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown and the Soviet Union established. A framing device, from which the film is... narrated, takes place some time in the late 1940s to early 1950s, though a specific date is never mentioned. The film's framing device involves KGB Lieutenant General Yevgraf Andreyevich Zhivago searching for the illegitimate child of his half brother, poet and doctor Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago , and his mistress Larissa Antipova . Yevgraf believes a young woman named Tonya Komarovskaya working on a dam project may be his niece. Yevgraf tells Tonya the story of her father's life.
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| Release date: | December 22, 1965 |
| Directed by: | David Lean |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 197 Minutes |
| Producer: | Carlo Ponti |
| Editor: | Norman Savage |
| Music by: | Maurice Jarre |
| Cinematography: | Freddie Young |
| Screenplay by: | Robert Bolt |
| Estimated budget: | $11,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Doctor Zhivago |