Celebrate the 60th anniversary of David Lean’s epic romantic drama DOCTOR ZHAVAGO with a special screening on Sunday, December 14 at 1:30 p.m. Tickets at regular Ross Prices. 

SYNOPSIS

Seeing Doctor Zhivago in the cinema is an unforgettable experience. It takes you back to a time before DVD and YouTube, when going to see a movie was a grand theatrical event. It starts with an orchestral overture. It includes an interval. It runs for three hours and twenty minutes, yet, like the steam trains that carry its characters across an icy Russia, it seems to hurtle past.Even if you’ve never seen the movie, you probably know the story: Doctor Zhivago’s comfortable life in Moscow is thrown into chaos by the First World War and the Russian Revolution. Throughout this violent turmoil he remains besotted by Lara, a wronged heroic woman whom he loves but barely knows. Every event conspires against them, yet fate keeps throwing them together. Will their love survive the Revolution? Or will history destroy them?

BBC, William Cook – November 2015

During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father’s suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar (Julie Christie), who has been having an affair with her mother’s lover (Rod Steiger), an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, however, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin). But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites.