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Essay on Analysis Of Dr. Zhivago
Dr. Zhivago based on Boris Pasternak's Russian novel Dr. Zhivago, the film Dr. Zhivago was released in 1965. Directed by David Lean, the film starred Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Alec Guinness, Rod Steiger, and Geraldine Page. The film is set in Russia on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, during the subsequent civil war in Russia, and into the Soviet Union of the 1920s. The film follows Dr. Zhivago from his last year of medical school at the University of Moscow, out to the front as a military physician during World War I, back to Moscow during the starving time of 1918 and 1919, then out to a family farm west of the Ural Mountains, where he is captured by partisans and forcibly inducted into their guerrilla military unit. After serving a long stretch with the partisans, Zhivago escapes, and makes his way back to the family farm. The film ends in Moscow, where Zhivago dies of a heart attack. Dr. Zhivago was an elegant masterpiece of filmmaking, one of David Lean's greatest artistic achievements. It was also an extraordinarily popular film in the 1960s. (Brodsky, Joseph, 1995)
Pasternak's novel, recognized by many as the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century, was first published in Russian and in Italian translation by the publisher Feltrinelli in Milan in 1957, having been rejected by the Soviet journal Novyi mir the previous year. It was translated into English in 1958. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature shortly afterwards, Pasternak was immediately subjected to a storm of official Soviet disapproval. He was expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union and forced to give up the prize. The novel, branded in the Soviet Union as anti-socialist, anti-democratic, and anti-historical, was banned for three decades until it appeared in 1988, in the very journal which had originally rejected it.......
