Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Réalisateur:

David Lean

Writers:

Boris Pasternak (novel)
Robert Bolt (screenplay)

Release Date:

22 décembre 1965 (USA)

Genre:

Drame | Romance | War

Accroche:

The entertainment event of the year!

Plot:

Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution.

Plot Keywords:

Poison | Dancing | Dam | Moving | Extramarital Affair

Awards:

Won 5 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 10 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

A Grand and Elegant Entertainment

Ensemble

Omar Sharif	...	Dr. Yuri Zhivago
Julie Christie	...	Lara
Geraldine Chaplin	...	Tonya
Rod Steiger	...	Komarovsky
Alec Guinness	...	Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Tom Courtenay	...	Pasha
Siobhan McKenna	...	Anna
Ralph Richardson	...	Alexander
Rita Tushingham	...	The Girl
Jeffrey Rockland	...	Sasha
Tarek Sharif	...	Yuri at 8 years old
Bernard Kay	...	The Bolshevik
Klaus Kinski	...	Kostoyed
Gérard Tichy	...	Liberius (as Gerard Tichy)
Noel Willman	...	Razin
Geoffrey Keen	...	Medical Professor
Adrienne Corri	...	Amelia
Jack MacGowran	...	Petya
Mark Eden	...	Engineer at Dam
Erik Chitty	...	Old Soldier
Roger Maxwell	...	Beef-Faced Colonel
Wolf Frees	...	Delegate
Gwen Nelson	...	Female Janitor
Lucy Westmore	...	Katya
Lili Muráti	...	The Train Jumper (as Lili Murati)
Peter Madden	...	Political Officer
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Luana Alcañiz	...	Mrs. Sventytski (uncredited)
Assad Bahador	...	Colonel of Dragoons (uncredited)
José María Caffarel	...	Militiaman (uncredited)
Emilio Carrer	...	Mr. Sventytski (uncredited)
Catherine Ellison	...	Raped woman (uncredited)
Pilar Gómez Ferrer	...	(uncredited)
Víctor Israel	...	(uncredited)
Inigo Jackson	...	Major (uncredited)
Gerhard Jersch	...	David (uncredited)
María Martín	...	Gentlewoman (uncredited)
José Nieto	...	Priest (uncredited)
Ricardo Palacios	...	Extra (uncredited)
Ingrid Pitt	...	Extra (uncredited)
Robert Rietty	...	Kostoyed (voice) (uncredited)
Mercedes Ruiz	...	Tonya at 7 (uncredited)
Aldo Sambrell	...	(uncredited)
Virgilio Teixeira	...	Captain (uncredited)
Brigitte Trace	...	Streetwalker (uncredited)
María Vico	...	Demented woman (uncredited)

Réalisé par
David Lean

Scénaristes
Boris Pasternak		(novel)
Robert Bolt		(screenplay)

Produit par
Arvid Griffen	....	executive producer
Carlo Ponti	....	producer

Musique originale
Maurice Jarre		(original music composed by)

Image
Freddie Young		(director of photography)
Nicolas Roeg		(some scenes) (uncredited)

Montage
Norman Savage

Distribution des rôles
Irene Howard		(uncredited)

Création des décors
John Box

Direction artistique
Terence Marsh
Gil Parrondo		(uncredited)

Décorateur de plateau
Dario Simoni

Création des costumes
Phyllis Dalton

Maquillage
Anna Cristofani	....	hair stylist (as Anna Christofani)
Grazia De Rossi	....	hair stylist (as Gracia de Rossi)
Mario Van Riel	....	makeup artist (as Mario van Riel)

Directeur de production
John Palmer	....	production supervisor
Agustín Pastor	....	production manager (as Agustin Pastor)
Douglas Twiddy	....	production manager

Assistant réalisateur
Roy Rossotti	....	second unit director
Roy Stevens	....	assistant director
Pedro Vidal	....	assistant director
Peter Beale	....	second assistant director (uncredited)
José María Ochoa	....	assistant director (uncredited)
Michael Stevenson	....	second assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Ernest Archer	....	assistant art director
Fred Bennett	....	construction
William Hutchinson	....	assistant art director (as Bill Hutchinson)
Gus Walker	....	construction
Roy Walker	....	assistant art director
José María Alarcón	....	assistant set decorator (uncredited)
Benjamín Fernández	....	assistant art director (uncredited)
Mickey Lennon	....	chargehand dressing prop: Spain (uncredited)
Julián Martín	....	painter (uncredited)
Wallis Smith	....	draughtsman (uncredited)

Technicien du son
Paddy Cunningham	....	sound recordist
Winston Ryder	....	sound editor
Van Allen James	....	sound editor (uncredited)
Franklin Milton	....	sound director (uncredited)
William Steinkamp	....	sound (uncredited)
A.W. Watkins	....	supervising sound editor (uncredited)

Effets spéciaux
Eddie Fowlie	....	special effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Manuel Berenguer	....	photographer: second unit
Ernest Day	....	camera operator
Miguel Sancho	....	chief electrician
Anthony Busbridge	....	focus puller: second unit (uncredited)
John Crawford	....	clapper loader (uncredited)
John Crawford	....	clapper loader (uncredited)
Kenneth Danvers	....	still photographer (uncredited)
Jim Dawes	....	grip (uncredited)
Jim Kane	....	grip (uncredited)
John Kerley	....	clapper loader: second unit (uncredited)
Dennis C. Lewiston	....	camera operator: second unit (uncredited)
Anthony B. Richmond	....	clapper loader (uncredited)
Alex Thomson	....	camera operator (uncredited)
Kenneth J. Withers	....	focus puller (uncredited)
Ted Worringham	....	camera maintenance (uncredited)

Editorial Department
John Grover	....	assistant editor (uncredited)

Music Department
Maurice Jarre	....	conductor
Bob Bain	....	musician: balalaika (uncredited)

Divers
Barbara Cole	....	continuity
Hugh Miller	....	dialogue coach
Andrew Mollo	....	consultant (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
• Sostar S.A.

Distributors

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1965) (USA) (theatrical)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1965) (UK) (theatrical)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1965) (France) (theatrical)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1965) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1965) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ibérica S.A. (1965) (Spain) (theatrical)
• Warner Home Video (1992) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1995) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1972) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1975) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Neue Visionen Filmverleih (????) (West Germany) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Warner Home Video (2001) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Vídeo (????) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Warner Home Vídeo (????) (Brazil) (VHS)

Other Companies

• MGM Sound Department  sound re-recording
• Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore  book publisher (as Feltrinelli Editore of Milan)
• Iberduero  sincere appreciation to (as Iberduero S.A. Aldeadavila Dam)
• Spanish Railways National System  sincere appreciation to
• VR  sincere appreciation to (as Finnish State Railways)
• Canadian Pacific Railway  sincere appreciation to (as Canadian Pacific Railway Company)
• CEA Studios  sincere appreciation to (as C.E.A. Studios, Madrid)

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Docteur Jivago (France) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for mature themes.

Durée:

197 min | Sweden:160 min | Sweden:192 min (2001 re-release) | Sweden:200 min (1998 re-release) | UK:192 min (1999 re-release) | UK:193 min | UK:200 min (1992 re-release)

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Son:

4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints) | DTS (re-release) (35 mm prints) | Mono (35 mm optical prints)

Classification:

Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | UK:PG (1992) | UK:A (1966) | Brazil:12 | Canada:PG (video rating) | West Germany:12 (f) | Iceland:12 | UK:15 (1987) | USA:PG-13 (re-rating) (1995) | USA:GP (re-rating) (1971) | South Korea:12 | USA:Approved (original rating) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Alberta, Canada

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Anecdotes:

Dirk Bogarde was considered for the title role but was never actually offered the part.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: During the scenes portraying the protest parade and the subsequent attack of the soldiers, it is supposed to be a bitterly cold night but there are no visible breath clouds from humans or horses which proves that the scenes were filmed in a warm environment.

Guillemet:

Komarovski: [speaking to Lara of Pasha] He's a very fine young man. That's obvious.

Connexions De Film:

Referenced in "Three's Company: Lies My Roommate Told Me (#6.6)" (1981)

Soundtrack:

Prelude in G minor, Op.23-5

A Grand and Elegant Entertainment

David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago" is a classic film, one that will live on as long as their are films. There are scenes in this movie that will invariably become

indelibly etched in the viewers imagination: The opening funeral march through the vast Siberian landscape, the grandeur of the Czarist Russian palaces, the march of the revolutionaries through the Moscow boulevards, the train ride

straight out of Dante's Inferno, the Ice-covered interior of the Zhivago country estate (a truly magical moment in the film), the wealth of beauty captured in the cinematography of this film is astonishing. Julie Christie's Lara is one of those great screen personas--she becomes a woman of such mysterious beauty. The

final scene of Yuri's desperate attempt to reach her in the crowded Soviet

Moscow is heartbreaking. And that music score! The opening film credits with Jarre's genuinely beautiful music, complete with balalaikas sets the mood for this great, grand entertainment. One of the best ever!