Posted on 03/01/2025 2:21:23 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is a 1965 historic epic movie. The movie was based on the novel written by Boris Pasternak. His book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades.
The movie reveals the human experiences of citizen hardship during World War I followed by the October Revolution.
Although long, the movie will not disappoint. “Doctor Zhivago” was nominated for ten Oscars (including Best Picture) and won five. Also, the movie won five awards at the 23rd Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture.
Adjusting for inflation, it is the ninth highest-grossing film worldwide in 2022. In 1998, it was ranked 39th by the American Film Institute on their 100 Years
Where to watch for free: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/doctor-zhivago-1965 Also, sold on ebay.
ORIGINAL TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGGr21PilKY
Strelnikov!
It was a beautiful love story. For a comical treatment of czarist Russia during the Napoleonic era, Love and Death is tops.
I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the party is beneath the dignity of any man, and the party was right: One man desperate for a bit of fuel is pathetic. Five million people desperate for fuel will destroy a city. That was the first time I ever saw my brother. But I knew him. And I knew that I would disobey the party. Perhaps it was the tie of blood between us, but I doubt it. We were only half tied anyway, and brothers will betray a brother. Indeed, as a policeman, I would say, get hold of a man’s brother and you’re halfway home. Nor was it admiration for a better man than me. I did admire him, but I didn’t think he was a better man. Besides, I’ve executed better men than me with a small pistol.
-Yevgraf Zhivago
With Sound of Music the samd year. Two epic works of the same genre.
IMHO Dr. Zhivago is the best movie ever made.
*Please note the segment viewed from the train of the burnt Russian village. This is accurate and experienced by my Russian Great-grandparents and very young Grandfather.
My Grandfather, 6’1”, wouldn’t speak of the past. However, he shared his earliest memory of running down the street holding his mother’s hand with their farm and their village in flames with my 4’11” Irish Grandmother.
He came to U.S with his father and brother. Being tall for his age, he lied to be able to work in the mines with his Father and brother. In this way, they raised passage for his mother and two sisters to the U.S.
When the family was reunited, his mother spoke to him in Russian. He would not respond. His mother cried saying he had forgotten her. He then said, “I am not Russian. I am an American.”
Excellent movie! Also read the book twice! Here is something not in the Movie. Explains why the Leftists keep trying to destroy the US.
Yurii’s talk with Pogorevshikh on the train to Moscow...
Part 2, chapter 5: 16
Imperturbable as an oracle, he prophesied disastrous
upheavals in the near future. Yurii Andreievich inwardly agreed
that this was not unlikely, but the calm, authoritative tone in
which this unpleasant boy was making his forecasts angered
him.
“Just a moment,” he said hesitantly. “True, all this may happen.
But it seems to me that with all that’s going on — the chaos, the
disintegration, the pressure from the enemy — this is not the
moment to start dangerous experiments. The country must be
allowed to recover from one upheaval before plunging into
another. We must wait till at least relative peace and order are
restored.”
“That’s naive,” said Pogorevshikh. “What you call disorder is
just as normal a state of things as the order you’re so keen
about. All this destruction — it’s a natural and preliminary stage
of a broad creative plan. Society has not yet disintegrated
sufficiently. It must fall to pieces completely then a genuinely
revolutionary government will put the pieces together and build
on completely new foundations.”
I fell in love with Julie Christie in that movie.
Never saw it.
Love the original and have watched it many times over the years. Every time I watch it, it seems to stay in my head for a few days after.
“In bourgeois terms, it was a war between the Allies and Germany. In Bolshevik terms, it was a war between the Allied and German upper classes - and which of them won was of total indifference. My task was to organize defeat, so as to hasten the onset of revolution. I enlisted under the name of Petrov. The party looked to the peasant conscript soldiers - many of whom were wearing their first real pair of boots. When the boots had worn out, they’d be ready to listen. When the time came, I was able to take three whole battalions out of the front lines with me - the best day’s work I ever did. But for now, there was nothing to be done. There were too many volunteers. Most of it was mere hysteria.
By the second winter, the boots had worn out... but the line still held. Even Comrade Lenin underestimated both the anguish of that 900-mile long front... as well our own cursed capacity for suffering. Half the men went into action without any arms... irregular rations... led by officers they didn’t trust.
Finally, when they could stand it no longer, they began doing what every army dreams of doing...They began to go home. That was the beginning of the Revolution.”
Doctor Zhivago (5/10) Movie CLIP - The Train Jumper (1965) HD
Movieclips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzs0681gdf0
It always makes me feel cold.
Klaus Kinski was a real piece of work.
I like the other one better. :-)
I prefer Ben Hur.
Saw it last year on the big screen on one of those special nite showings. Wonderful. Saw Lawrence of Arabia the same way.
Dr Zhivago was a lightweight who went around looking for beauty in a nightmare world. The characters around him, Tonya in particular were way better than he was. In particular, he was a terrible father and husband.
;^)
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