1965 · romance · drama · history
Doctor Zhivago
Directed by David Lean3h 20m1965
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Our read: Doctor Zhivago (1965) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded romance · drama · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
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