My Masterpiece Number 10!!!

Rating: 10/10 (21 April 2020)

Just few director can be equated as David Lean's filmography, he made great pictures, in this overlong Doctor Zhivago he overcame himself, in this robust adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel is worth mentioning, the plot summary is about a forbidden romance between a Doctor Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and Lara (Julie Christie) a wife of on the most important Bolchevik's leader Pasha (Tom Courtenay) on advent of the bloody Russian revolution, dramatic approaching those harsh years, having the backdrop the World War II against Germany that was a trigger of the revolution, this is an overview how the Russian people has been suffered on starvation, an abrupt change of life, diseases and mainly for everybody lost their properties in order by an utopic regime, all this between on a civil war, David Lean exposes to us a painful portrait this crazy crackdown, among loss of millions of human lives came one the most repressive system ever had on mankind, however Lean driven the attention to Zhivago, his wife Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin) Lara his lover and the evil and the shady Komarovsky (Rod Steiger) who previously had ruin Lara's repute, also has a half-brother of Zhivago played by the genius Alec Guinness with a dubious and two-faced character, otherwise the most colorful indeed, that appears in the beginning and the ending, mostly by consise flashbacks, looking for the lost daughter of his brother, a fabulous picture that no one dared to make a remake!!!
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First watch: 1984 / How many: 4 / Source: TV-DVD-Blu-Ray / Rating: 10