Doctor Zhivago [DVD] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a Carlo Ponti production ; produced by Carlo Ponti ; screenplay by Robert Bolt ; directed by David Lean.
Omar Sharif, Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guiness, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson, Rod Steiger Rita Tushingham. Introduction to motion picture and narrator of documentary, Omar Sharif. Originally released as a motion picture in 1965. Based on the novel by Boris Pasternak. Double-sided disc must be flipped halfway through Special features: Disc 1. Introduction by Omar Sharif; audio commentary by Omar Sharif, Rod Steiger, and Sandra Lean; music-only track. Disc 2. Cast & crew ; Doctor Zhivago: the making of a Russian epic / produced and directed by Scott Benson ; narrated by Omar Sharif (1995; 59 min.); Zhivago: behind the camera with David Lean / produced by Thomas Craven Film Corporation (10 min.) ; David Lean's film of Doctor Zhivago / production of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (7 min.) ; Moscow in Madrid / produced by Thomas Craven Film Corporation (5 min.) ; Pasternak / Produced by Thomas Craven Film Corporation (9 min.) ; New York press interviews with Julie Christie (b&w, 10 min.) ; New York pres interviews with Omar Sharif (b&w, 19 min.) ; Geraldine Chapline screen test (3 min.) This is Julie Christie (b&w, 1 min.) ; This is Omar Sharif (b&w, 2 min.) ; original trailer, awards.
Contents:
Disc 1, sides A & B : Doctor Zhivago -- Disc 2 : Special features.
Summary:
A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
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