Poster by	David Lean
Directed by	David Lean
Screenplay by	Robert Bolt
Based on	Doctor Zhivago 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak
Produced by	Carlo Ponti
Starring	Geraldine Chaplin Julie Christie Tom Courtenay Alec Guinness Siobhán McKenna Ralph Richardson Omar Sharif Rod Steiger Rita Tushingham
Cinematography	Freddie Young
Edited by	Norman Savage
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Production companies	Carlo Ponti Productions Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	22 December 1965 (US) 26 April 1966 (UK) 10 December 1966 (Italy)
Running time	193 minutes (1965 release) 200 minutes (1992 re-release)
Countries	United Kingdom Italy United States
Language	English
Budget	$11 million
Box office	$111.7 million (US/Canada) 248.2 million tickets (worldwide)
(This information is from wikipedia.org.)

Doctor Zhivago

Romance

You can’t make it too easy. There must be a bad marriage, a missing brother, jealousy, misuse of privilege, various traumas, and a revolution and counterrevolution in which nobody is safe.

Twisted relationships

War does twists everything. It creates orphans, separates couples, murders, and excuses rapes. People, meanwhile, try to cope, while they find and lose loved ones, nieces, and friends.

Secret service

It wasn’t a secret. It openly suppressed political opposition using abduction, torture, and murder, and it wasn’t accountable to the law.