Does that 4-parter have anything much to do w/ the original 1965 version?
Much better than the Julie Christie version
IMHO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_(TV_series)
My error I thought it was a four part series. Evidently just two parts.
It is panned for being too close to the book and therefore not a lyrical as the 68 film. It is close to the book and shows the totalitarian takeover baldly.
That is why I think it is a better and more important film series now.
REVIEWS
In the Sunday Telegraph John Preston commented “This version treated its audience as intelligent and assumed they had the ability to follow a story that unfolded visually rather than verbally”, adding that its “first and most self-evident virtue was that it looked more like a movie than a traditional telly drama. There was a real richness of texture here” and noted “...a wealth of other cleverly wrought, yet essentially simple touches”. He was less impressed with Andrew Davies’s script and Keira Knightley’s Lara, but commended Hans Matheson “terrific as the grown-up Yuri Zhivago – intense, playful, assured” and Giacomo Campiotti’s “bravura direction”.[5]
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Tom Jicha of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel called it “a stunning success” and continued, “Davies’ screenplay is involving, the cinematography is captivating, the costuming and set designs evoke a sense of time and place, and the top-of-the-marquee performances are world-class.” He concluded, “Doctor Zhivago is a hefty production, which demands a four-hour, commercial-free commitment from its audience. But the reward is a richly layered character study and love story, worthy of the franchise under which it airs.”[6]