Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Regisseur:

David Lean

Drehbuchautoren:

Boris Pasternak (novel)
Robert Bolt (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

22. Dezember 1965 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romanze | Kriegsfilm

Werbezeile:

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:

Nurse | Adoption | Marital Separation | Revolutionary | Loss Of Mother

Filmpreise:

Won 5 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 10 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

One of the Best Epic Films Ever Made

Besetzung

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

Alternativ:

Doktor Schiwago (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for mature themes.

Länge:

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)

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Metrocolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

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)

Altersfreigabe:

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

Drehorte:

Alberta, Canada

Firma:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Dies und das:

Robert Bolt recommended Albert Finney for the role of Pasha, and wrote Finney a long letter to convince him to accept. 'David Lean' , however, refused, largely because Finney had turned down the title role in Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: The city railroad scenes were filmed in Spain, and many of the forest railroad scenes were filmed in Finland; in both of those countries, most of the railroad track is broad gauge (the rails are more than 5 feet apart). The plains and mountains railroad scenes were largely shot in Canada, where the rails are "standard gauge": 4' 8 & 1/2" apart. The rails can be seen to jump between far apart and closer together more than once as the movie progresses.

Dialogzitate:

Liberius: [Liberius and Razin are debating whether or not to allow Zhivago's release] I command this unit!
Razin, Liberius' Lieutenant: We command jointly! The Party Bulletin expressly states...
Liberius: Bah!
[knocks bulletin out of Razin's hands]
Liberius: I could have you taken out and shot!
Razin, Liberius' Lieutenant: And could you have The Party taken out and shot? Understand this: as the military struggle draws to a close, the political struggle intensifies. In the hour of victory, the military will have served its purpose - and all men will be judged POLITICALLY - regardless of their military record! Meanwhile, there are still White units in this area - the Doctor stays.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in "Quantum Leap: Double Identity - November 8, 1965 (#1.6)" (1989)

Soundtrack:

Prelude in G minor, Op.23-5

One of the Best Epic Films Ever Made

I can't remember the origin of the quote, but I remember it distinctly. A Communist Party official of the Soviet Union, justifying the Bolshevik destruction of Tsarist Russia, told a foreign observer, `If you want to make an omelet, you've got to break some eggs.' The visitor replied, `I see the broken eggs, but Where's the omelet?' Dr. Zhivago is set at the time when the Bolsheviks, feverishly ideological, were creating their socialist state. The epochal drama that unfolds is the age-old question about whether the ends justify the means.

As materialists (matter precedes spirit, not vice versa), the Bolsheviks believed that they had found the holy grail of human progress in Marxism-Leninism, and were now able to assume the reins of history in their own hands. They believed that their violence was not only justified, but necessary, oblivious to the fact that they, too, somehow felt the angel of medieval teleology smiling over their shoulders.

In contrast to the Bolsheviks, Zhivago's ethos, if he had one, was almost identical to Kant's `categorical imperative,' which had just one axiom: treat people as ends in themselves, and not as ends to a mean. There couldn't be a sharper moral contrast.

There's a fabulous scene midway through the movie that highlights the difference in moral attitude. Dr. Zhivago confronts a communist functionary who has ordered the destruction of a village, a hamlet suspected of aiding the Mensheviks by selling them horses. To the Bolsheviks, if you weren't 100 percent behind them, you were a `counterrevolutionary,' sorta like Dubya's idea that you're either for us, or against us. And so Strelnikov, the passionate Bolshevik, glibly justifies his actions to Dr. Zhivago as easy as if he were tossing his hair aside, saying that the annihilation of the village, however cruel, is necessary to make a point. Zhivago replies: `Your point; their village.'

I love this film, a timeless epic. If there's a more beautiful heroine in all of movie-making history than Julie Christie (Lara), I'm not aware of it. And Omar Sharif is stunning as Iuri Zhivago, who heals the body with emetics, scalpels, antiseptic, and gauze, while he heals the soul with his poetry. Although the movie is three hours and 20 minutes long, the cinematography is so efficient, evocative, and densely layered that one hardly notices. This is, in my opinion, one of the best films of all time.