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Doktor Schiwago 2x DVD 1965 Il dottor Živago / Directed by David Lean / Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness
UPC 7321925012972
MADE IN Germany
REGION 2 PAL DVD
Audio: English 5.1, German 5.1
Subtitle: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Italian, German HOH
Playtime: 192 minutes (2 discs)
English Summary:
Doctor Zhivago (Italian: Il dottor Živago) is a 1965 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt. It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922, and is based on the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel Doctor Zhivago. While immensely popular in the West, the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades. For this reason, the film could not be made in the Soviet Union and was instead filmed mostly in Spain.
The film takes place mostly against a backdrop of the pre-World War I years, World War I itself, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the Russian Civil War. A narrative framing device, set in the late 1940s or early 1950s, involves KGB Lieutenant General Yevgraf Andreyevich Zhivago searching for the daughter of his half brother, Doctor Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago, and Larissa ("Lara"). Yevgraf believes a young woman, Tanya Komarova, may be his niece and tells her the story of her father's life.
After the burial of his mother in rural Russia, the orphaned Yuri Zhivago is taken in by his mother's friends in Moscow: Alexander and Anna Gromeko, and their daughter Tonya.
In 1913, Zhivago, as a medical student in training, but a poet at heart, meets Tonya as she returns to Moscow after a long trip to Paris. Lara, only 17, is involved in an affair with the older and well-connected Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky, a friend of her mother's. One night, the idealistic reformer Pavel Pavlovich ("Pasha") Antipov drifts into left-wing extremism after being wounded by sabre-wielding dragoons during a peaceful demonstration. Pasha runs to Lara, whom he wants to marry, to treat his wound. He asks her to hide a gun he picked up at the demonstration.
German Summary:
Die Handlung des Films erstreckt sich über die Jahre vor, während und nach der Russischen Revolution 1917. Die Haltung des Titelhelden Doktor Schiwago gegenüber den Umwälzungen in seinem Land bleibt dabei durchgängig im Hintergrund. In einer Zeit, in der viele Leute vorgeben, mit Blick auf das Allgemeinwohl zu agieren, behält Schiwago einzelne Menschen im Auge. Im Zentrum seiner Aufmerksamkeit – und damit auch im Zentrum des Films – stehen die beiden Liebesbeziehungen des Protagonisten.
Jurij Schiwago wird im Alter von circa fünf Jahren Vollwaise. Er wird von der Familie seines Onkels Alexander Gromeko aufgenommen und wächst in deren Haus in Moskau auf.
Bereits während seines Medizinstudiums gibt es in einer Straßenbahn eine zufällige Begegnung mit Lara, die aber keine Folgen hat. Nach seinem Studium heiratet er jedoch Tonya, die Tochter seiner Pflegeeltern, und hat später einen Sohn mit ihr.
Im Laufe des Films wird immer deutlicher, dass Jurijs Ehe nicht den emotionalen Mittelpunkt darstellt, sondern vielmehr seine außereheliche Verbindung zu Lara. Lara ihrerseits befindet sich zunächst im Einflussbereich zweier Männer – des rücksichtslosen opportunistischen Politikers Komarovsky und des idealistischen Revolutionärs Pawel („Pascha“) Antipow.
Komarovsky hat sowohl auf Lara als auch auf ihre Mutter, mit denen er jeweils ein Verhältnis hat, einen sehr ungünstigen Einfluss. Laras Mutter versucht einen Suizid – offenbar aus Enttäuschung über sein Verhalten.
Cast / Besetzung:
- Omar Sharif as Dr. Yuri Andreyevich ZhivagoJulie Christie as Lara Antipova
- Tarek Sharif as young Yuri
- Geraldine Chaplin as Tonya Gromeko
- Rod Steiger as Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky
- Alec Guinness as Lieutenant General Yevgraf Andreyevich Zhivago
- Tom Courtenay as Pavel "Pasha" Antipov / Strelnikov
- Siobhán McKenna as Anna Gromeko
- Ralph Richardson as Alexander Maximovich Gromeko
- Rita Tushingham as Tanya KomarovaJeffrey Rockland as Sasha
- Mercedes Ruiz as young Tanya
- Bernard Kay as Kuril
- Klaus Kinski as Kostoyed AmourskyGérard Tichy as Liberius
- Robert Rietti as Amoursky's voice (uncredited)
- Noel Willman as Razin
- Geoffrey Keen as Prof. Boris Kurt
- Adrienne Corri as Amelia
- Jack MacGowran as Petya
- Mark Eden as Bakunin
- Erik Chitty as Old Soldier
- Roger Maxwell as Beef-Faced Colonel
- Wolf Frees as Delegate
- Gwen Nelson as Female Janitor
- Lucy Westmore as Katya
- Lili Murati as The Train Jumper
- Peter Madden as Political Officer
Directed by | David Lean |
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Produced by | Carlo Ponti |
Screenplay by | Robert Bolt |
Based on | Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak |
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Music by | Maurice Jarre |
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Edited by | Norman Savage |
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Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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