Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago is a 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak, following a physician and poet through the Russian Revolution and its aftermath.
The Soviet Union banned it; Pasternak won the Nobel Prize but was forced to decline.
David Lean's 1965 film adaptation, with its sweeping cinematography and romantic tragedy, made the title synonymous with epic love stories set against historical upheaval.
- PasternakRussian author, Nobel declined
- LaraFemale name, Latin origin
- RussiaEurasian federation, largest country
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- MoscowRussia's capital city
Russian Revolution · snow · poetry · Bolshevik · Red Army · epic · Yuri · love affair · train · Siberia · balalaika · romance · winter · Tonya · Civil War · forbidden · sunflowers · ice
- 20th Century Books1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Catch-22, Grapes of Wrath
- Classic BooksPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Moby-Dick, Great Expectations
- 60s CinemaDr. Strangelove, The Graduate, Easy Rider, Bonnie and Clyde, Lawrence of Arabia
- Literary AdaptationsOliver Twist, Les Miserables, Count of Monte Cristo, Treasure Island, Phantom of the Opera
- Russian CultureBolshoi, matryoshka, Kremlin, Hermitage, balalaika
- Russian LiteratureTolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Nabokov
Doctor ZhivagoDie Hard
Yippee-ki-yay thriller
Mad Max · Rambo · The Bourne Identity · Top Gun · pulp fiction
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