Doctor Zhivago: Quick Facts

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Omar Sharif as Yury Zhivago tends to a patient with Julie Christie as Lara beside him in a scene from the film Doctor Zhivago, both dressed in period Russian attire.

Large group of revolutionaries on horseback cross a snowy, frozen river in a scene from the 1965 film Doctor Zhivago, with snow-covered trees in the background.

Director Sir David Lean sits atop a ladder beside a film camera, surrounded by crew and equipment on the set of Doctor Zhivago (1965) under a blue sky.

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