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So is Sam Neill more persuasive than Rod Steiger as Victor Komarovsky, who seduces a teenage Lara before the revolution and stalks her afterward. And the absence of a Maurice Jarre score is a small-screen mercy. At first blush, casting Keira Knightley in the part seems a coup. After Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean , who else would we want to write poems about, or to play football and walk planks with?

But Knightley is also too healthy and too cute. For someone destined to suffer so much, she almost never looks inward at anything ineffable or opaque, and is therefore insufficiently grand-operatic.

But if we are to have another Doctor Zhivago , the missed opportunity is political. A screenwriter as resourceful as Andrew Davies, thinking about how the Russian Revolution ate its young, could have and should have found some way to dramatize the opposition between literature and ideology besides how inconvenient revolutions are to love nests.

Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Tsvetayeva, and Fadeyev—suicides. All Rights Reserved. Sign In. Drama iTunes. Available on iTunes. Dramatic mini-series set against the tumultuous background of World War One and the Russian Revolution. This is the gripping story of anguished poet and physician Dr Zhivago, torn between love for his wife Tonya and passion for Lara.

Episode 1. Related See All. Storyline Edit. Their love story is unfolding against the backdrop of revolution which affects the doctor's career, his family, and his love to Lara. Did you know Edit. Quotes Yuri [to Professor] : I'll be a doctor for others, and a poet for myself.

User reviews 67 Review. Top review. This is so believable, so true to life! I am not going to compare two versions of "Doctor Zhivago". To me they are so different that there is not much grounds for comparison.

I possibly can not share fascination with movie. It could be viewed as a love story performed by two great actors. But it is anything but Boris Pasternak's story. In Russia they would call it "lubok" - a colorful picture, work of one's imagination. Beautiful but having nothing to do with reality. And I don't mean just following the events of the book. Boris Pasternak's book is full of pain - personal and collective. And pain. And it is also full of hope, as no matter how horrible life was, hope never died.

And you can see hope in the movie - in Lara's eyes, in Yury's smile. Thumbs up! Details Edit. Release date November 24, United States. United Kingdom Germany United States.