Doctor Zhivago

Resource Information

The work Doctor Zhivago represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Doctor Zhivago

Statement of responsibility

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Carlo Ponti production ; produced by Carlo Ponti ; screenplay by Robert Bolt ; directed by David Lean

Contributor

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Turner Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Turner Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Bolt, Robert
• Bolt, Robert
• Chaplin, Geraldine, 1944-
• Chaplin, Geraldine, 1944-
• Christie, Julie, 1941-
• Christie, Julie, 1941-
• Courtenay, Tom
• Courtenay, Tom
• Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000
• Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000
• Jarre, Maurice
• Jarre, Maurice
• Lean, David, 1908-1991
• Lean, David, 1908-1991
• McKenna, Siobhán, 1923-1986
• McKenna, Siobhán, 1923-1986
• Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960
• Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960
• Ponti, Carlo, 1912-2007
• Ponti, Carlo, 1912-2007
• Richardson, Ralph, Sir, 1902-1983
• Richardson, Ralph, Sir, 1902-1983
• Sharif, Omar, 1932-2015
• Sharif, Omar, 1932-2015
• Steiger, Rod, 1925-2002
• Steiger, Rod, 1925-2002
• Tushingham, Rita, 1942-
• Tushingham, Rita, 1942-

Subject

• Drama
• Drama
• Feature films -- United States
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Russia -- History -- Revolution, 1905-1907 -- Drama
• Russia -- History -- Revolution, 1905-1907 -- Drama
• Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Drama
• Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Drama
• Video recordings
• Video recordings
• Videorecording

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget

Cataloging source

C02

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Freddie Young ; film editor, Norman Savage ; original music composed and conducted by Maurice Jarre. Documentary presented by Turner Home Entertainment

Language note

Languages: English and French, subtitles: English, French, and Spanish; closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham. Introduction to motion picture and narrator of documentary, Omar Sharif

Runtime

200

Target audience

general

Technique

live action