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Doctor Zhivago (1965)

★ 7.5 · 1,261 ratings on TMDB

A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution

Doctor Zhivago poster★ 7.5

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.

DirectorDavid Lean
CastAdrienne Corri, Alec Guinness, Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Omar Sharif, Ralph Richardson
GenresDrama, Romance, War
The emergence reading

Doctor Zhivago keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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