Il dottor Zivago

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When Yuri and Lara accidentally bump each other on the streetcar, their first encounter, the overhea [...]	D
This movie grossed more than every other movie David Lean had directed put together, or so the direc [...]	D
Tarek Sharif: Omar Sharif's son plays young Yuri Zhivago at his mother's funeral.	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2002 list of the Top 100 America's Greatest Love Story [...]	D
David Lean cast Julie Christie as Lara after seeing her in Billy il bugiardo (1963), and on the reco [...]	D
Although Maurice Jarre's score is probably the best-remembered feature of the movie, David Lean cons [...]	D
Although the 2002 British mini series re-make fills in many scenes that were not in the original fil [...]	D
Tonya arrives from Paris on a carriage that says "Wagons-Lits." Based in Paris, Compagnie Internatio [...]	D
The movie created a fashion fad called "Zhivago." Coats, boots, hats and more were designed to emula [...]	D
The budget ballooned from $5 million to $15 million.	D
Although publicity material said that the Moscow set built in Canillas was half a mile long, the act [...]	D
Several producers and studios bid for the rights to the novel, which producer Carlo Ponti won in 196 [...]	D
The film was produced in 22 different languages.	D
David Lean discovered Geraldine Chaplin when he spotted her on the cover of a magazine. She was mode [...]	D
Pamella Carrington Coutte was five when she was cast as seven-year-old Tonya, but the burial scene w [...]	D
Although David Lean had championed Julie Christie to studio executives, during early days of filming [...]	D
The final scene, in which a rainbow appears over a dam as the final credits roll, was criticized as [...]	D
When David Lean told the studio that he wanted Maurice Jarre to provide the score, he was told, "Mau [...]	D
David Lean had heard a piece of Russian music that he felt was perfect for the movie. He wasn't able [...]	D
Omar Sharif claimed that he was close to a breakdown throughout most of filming due to stress over p [...]	D
Strelnekov's office has a portrait of Lenin on the wall.	D
The costumes inspired the "Zhivago Look" for designers like Yves St. Laurent and Christian Dior. Fur [...]	D
Over 4,000 daffodils were imported from The Netherlands and placed on the outskirts of Soria, where [...]	D
David Lean wanted Audrey Hepburn to play Tonya, but he was so impressed by Geraldine Chaplin's audit [...]	D
Yuri's half brother mentions that their father was devoted to Yuri's mother, but we never learn abou [...]	D
Many winter scenes were shot in the summer, with actors and actresses wearing heavy Russian furs in [...]	D
This film is included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneide [...]	D
After a month went by with Marlon Brando failing to respond to David Lean's written inquiry into whe [...]	D
According to Freddie Young, before he agreed to take the director of photography job following an ex [...]	D
The spectre of wind and weather ominously playing with a window was seen over a quarter of a century [...]	D
For the scenes in which Dr. Yuri Zhivago and his family suffer through a torturous train ride to the [...]	D
At the time shown in the film, the Russian aristocracy had a strong connection to Paris. Upper-class [...]	D
Ingrid Pitt appears in five different uncredited bit roles.	D
David Lean wanted to make a more intimate, romantic piece after the big budget, action-oriented Lawr [...]	D
Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery, Burt Lancaster, and Max von Sydow were considered for the title role, bu [...]	D
Dr. Yuri Zhivago's balalaika is never played in the movie.	D
A ten-acre replica of Moscow was built in Canillas, a suburb of Madrid. It included a cobbled 800-ya [...]	D
A Sergei Rachmaninoff prelude is heard at the salon concert when Komarowski summons the Medical Prof [...]	D
Omar Sharif directed his son Tarek Sharif as a way to get closer to his character.	D
When asked if he thought Sarah Miles would make a good choice for the part of Lara, screenwriter Rob [...]	D
Omar Sharif shaved his head and wore a red wig to play Dr. Yuri Zhivago.	D
Omar Sharif was a big fan of the novel.	D
Geraldine Chaplin's first filmed scene was when her character Tonya reads out a letter to Alexander. [...]	D
Omar Sharif asked director David Lean to consider him for the role of Pavel Antipov (Pasha). He was [...]	D
Although the film was an epic on the scale of David Lean's previous movie, Lawrence d'Arabia (1962), [...]	D
As Yuri writes the word Lara in Cyrillic while seated at the desk, wolves are howling in the backgro [...]	D
Making the movie took 2 years and over 800 craftsmen in three countries. The final production budget [...]	D
Critics tore the film apart upon release. Newsweek commented about "hack-job sets" and "pallid photo [...]	D
MGM suggested Paul Newman for Zhivago, but David Lean wanted Max Von Sydow. MGM refused and put forw [...]	D
This movie was shot in Spain during the regime of General Francisco Franco. One day, while filming t [...]	D
When Lara slaps Victor, who slaps her back, Victor's slap was not in the script or discussed during [...]	D
The shooting exceeded the ten month schedule because David Lean wanted to capture the different seas [...]	D
Dr. Yuri Zhivago's and Lara's first lines of dialogue with each other don't happen until one hour an [...]	D
Most of the exteriors were completely built inside, to serve as interiors.	D
Julie Christie and Rod Steiger shared the same birthday, April 14.	D
The charge of the Partisans across the frozen lake was filmed in temperatures over 30 degrees Celsiu [...]	D
The book and movie were banned by the Soviet Communist Party until 1988, when Gorbachev allowed exce [...]	D
Rod Steiger was on-set filming for 12 months.	D
When the train pulls into the station to take the people out of town, there is snow at the base of t [...]	D
The cheering sailors on the side of the railroad before Pasha Antipov's train passes by are wearing [...]	D
Igor Girkin, the leader of the Russian-backed rebels in Eastern Ukraine, who was prosecuted for shoo [...]	D
Tom Courtenay and Omar Sharif appeared in La notte dei generali (1967).	D
Omar Sharif had to have his eyes taped back daily and his hair straightened to disguise his Egyptian [...]	D
In an interview several years after making this movie, Rod Steiger said he was one of very few Ameri [...]	D
This movie wasn't shown in Russia until 1994.	D
Jane Fonda turned down the role of Lara because she didn't want to go to Spain for nine months. Seve [...]	D
The early sunrise shot of the Urals-bound steam locomotive traveling across the snowy landscape is a [...]	D
The iodine bottle Pasha uses on his injury is the same one Lara's mother uses in her suicide attempt [...]	D
Shooting the winter scenes did not go as planned due to the unusually mild weather. Instead, they we [...]	D
Despite its highly diverse international cast, the movie contains almost no Russian actors and actre [...]	D
Julie Christie hated having to wear the infamous red dress. David Lean told her that was how he want [...]	D
The scene where Dr. Yuri Zhivago and Lara meet amid the Army deserters is a deliberate homage to La [...]	D
The soundtrack sold more than 600,000 copies during the movie's initial release.	D
Recording the score required a 110-piece orchestra, including 22 balalaika players. The balalaika pl [...]	D
Producer Carlo Ponti wanted to shoot this movie in the Soviet Union, but the government refused. Dir [...]	D
The film used thousands of extras, including Spanish soldiers and Finnish Sami (for the scenes in Si [...]	D
This movie received an added publicity boost during post-production when Darling (1965) opened, maki [...]	D
The inside of the ice palace was mostly made of specifically formed wax.	D
Yuri glances at a bloodstain on the snow, and then there's a cut to Lara saying goodnight to Komarav [...]	D
For the movie's 30th anniversary, the Turner Entertainment Company created a new print to be used fo [...]	D
As of 2010, adjusted for inflation, this is the eighth-highest grossing movie of all time.	D
Screenwriter Robert Bolt recommended Albert Finney for the role of Pasha, and wrote Finney a long le [...]	D
Early on, an engineer speaking to Alec Guinness mentions wanting to be ahead of the plan. After WWII [...]	D
The scene of Yuri chasing the streetcar and finding a seat behind Lara was nodded to in Il laureato [...]	D
The cast includes three Oscar winners: Julie Christie, Rod Steiger, and Alec Guinness; and three Osc [...]	D
The re-creation of Moscow on a Spanish studio lot took 18 months to achieve.	D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be also nominated for Best Original Score.	D
The film ranked number seven in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (20 [...]	D
Rather absurdly, MGM suggested to David Lean that Paul Newman be cast in the title role, for which h [...]	D
With the exception of an uncredited role in Luci della ribalta (1952), this was Geraldine Chaplin's [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Years o [...]	D
Producer Carlo Ponti originally bought the rights to the novel so that he could cast his wife, Sophi [...]	D
In his autobiography, Michael Caine said he also read for Dr. Yuri Zhivago, but after watching the r [...]	D
Rita Tushingham filmed her part in two weeks.	D
The limousine at the hydroelectric plant at he beginning and end of the movie is a 1948 Packard. It [...]	D
Yvette Mimieux was rejected for the part of Lara.	D
When General Zhivago and the engineer discuss the Lara poems, the engineer makes a reference to the [...]	D
Boris Pasternak's source novel is 592 pages long. When Robert Bolt's screenplay was published, it ca [...]	D
After Via col vento (1939), this is the second most profitable movie in MGM's history.	D
Debut of actress Ingrid Pitt.	D
Dr. Zhivago's physician side is rarely shown. He writes poems for Lara near the end of their relatio [...]	D
This movie's principal location in Spain was the C.E.A. Studios, near Madrid's international airport [...]	D
Although Dr. Zhivago is a poet and his book Lara carries importance throughout the film, the film ne [...]	D
Pasha Antipov's armored train was an accurate replica of trains that were used during World War I an [...]	D
In 1958, Kirk Douglas and Stanley Kubrick approached Boris Pasternak to buy the film rights to "Doct [...]	D
Some critics rejected Maurice Jarre's score, especially "Lara's Theme," as "syrupy".	D
Final film of Luana AlcaÃ±iz.	D
David Lean re-used some of the crew of Lawrence d'Arabia (1962): screenwriter Robert Bolt, composer [...]	D
Since the film never talks of the eventual fates of Lara and Katya, it is presumed Yuri had the poem [...]	D
This is Geraldine Chaplin's English language movie debut.	D
The film is included on the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Mov [...]	D
Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the source novel to be published in Russia in 1988, as part of his "glasno [...]	D
Geraldine Chaplin modeled her performance of Tonya on her mother, Oona Chaplin.	D
Jeffrey Rockland, son of an American diplomat at the US Embassy in Madrid, played Sasha. Jeffrey's m [...]	D
No precise dates for events are given in the film, apart from the Christmas Eve party at which Lara [...]	D
David Lean's first choice for the title role was Peter O'Toole who declined, citing the grueling exp [...]	D
Alec Guinness and director David Lean quarreled frequently on the set. According to Guinness, Lean w [...]	D
The film never reveals Lara or Katya's fates.	D
For Dr. Yuri Zhivago's trip through the Russian Steppes, production designer John Box constructed se [...]	D
Screenwriter Robert Bolt hoped to retain many of the political and historical aspects of the story, [...]	D
When the movie opened in West Germany in fall 1966, it was so popular that it was still playing in J [...]	D
Lili MurÃ¡ti was seriously injured while shooting the scene in which she runs beside the train and [...]	D
All of the locomotives used in the movie are Spanish locomotives, like the RENFE Class 240 (ex-1400 [...]	D
Initially, this movie failed to make much impact at the box office, probably due to the critics' luk [...]	D

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