Watch the trailer for Doctor Zhivago (1965)
USA-UK 1965
Directed by David Lean
With Julie Christie, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness
200 min
PG
Digitally restored 4K DCP
An epic romance set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago is one of cinema’s great love stories.
In Moscow on the eve of the First World War, medical student Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) meets the beautiful Lara (Julie Christie), setting in train a fateful romance that turns their lives upside down. Featuring excellent supporting performances by Alec Guinness, Rod Steiger, Geraldine Chaplin and Tom Courtenay (45 Years), Doctor Zhivago portrays at its heart an intensely human and passionate relationship, challenged by the monumental politics of tradition and war.
Venues
26 August
Stockport Plaza