In Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak has fulfilled his personal definition of the highest purpose of art: to create “an image of man [that] is greater than man,” thus leading him to nobler realms ...

David Lean's film of Doctor Zhivago The story of how Boris Pasternak's book came to screen is briefly covered in this seven-minute featurette, which includes footage of the Nobel ceremony that ...

Based on the Boris Pasternak novel, “Doctor Zhivago” comes from a creative team that includes book writer Michael Weller, composer Lucy Simon and lyricist Michael Korie. Des McAnuff directs.

During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara ...

Both works are based on the story behind Dr Zhivago, Boris Pasternak's most famous work and the subject of David Lean's 1965 blockbuster of the same title, starring Julie Christie and Omar Sharif.

Pushkin lived at the beginning of the 19th century—he was Russia’s Lord Byron, if you will—and Pasternak, who wrote Dr. Zhivago, lived in the late 20th century.

It is little wonder then that Doctor Zhivago (Pantheon, $5.00), the first novel of this foremost living Russian poet, should be anticipated as an important revelation of Soviet life and a prophecy ...

It wasn’t until 1988, after his death and the eventual publication of Doctor Zhivago in the Soviet Union, that Boris’ son, Yevgeny, collected the prize in his father’s honour.