To think Dr Zhivago should shut the doors?

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Watching Dr Zhivago (Omar/Julie Christie) for the first time since my teens. They keep popping out onto the balcony to watch a massacre, nip outside to dress some wounds and NEVER SHUT THE FUCKING DOOR BEHIND THEM. It's minus 50 degrees there. It's driving me nuts.

Ohhhh you've made me want to watch it again...... And I really should go to bed.

It’s my favourite film ever!! I have watched it loads of times and I cry like a baby every time. I just love the music The film is a true classic!! Just stunning to watch!!

@nana - snap, without a doubt my favourite film and book. OP - have to say I’ve never noticed but I’m going to have to watch it again tomorrow for the millionth time. You’d think they would shut the doors, it would have been bloody freezing.

As an aside to the original film there was a mini series that came out many years ago, starring Keira Knightley and Sam Neil which I must say was also fantastic. Ludovico Einaudi did the soundtrack, I cried for hours after watching it, the music heightens the poignancy imo.

I have an unopened dvd of the Keira Knightly version. I didn't know there was any version other than the Omar/Julie one when I ordered it.
Frost flowers every bit as pretty as I remember.

And lovely music and 💕

But I might dig out the Keira DVD and give it a try Didsomeone

Oh 😭😭😭The end and time for bed.
I don't believe Keira can compare.

Its heresy to say this to most DZ fans, but the ITV series was even better, despite Keira Knightley's gurning. Muh better ending as well, and nearly as good a soundtrack.

Oh Bunny got there first. It really is worth a watch. Very different, much darker.

I can’t bear Keira and her mouth
And I love the original
But perhaps I should give it a try

I did love the Keira version of Anna Karenina , saw it twice at the cinema. It was. Very clever production I thought and one of her less annoying better performances.

I've spent my whole life thinking Yuriatin and Varykino are the most romantic places on earth. and completely ignoring the fact that frost inside your house isn't actually sexy

I don't think Keira can compare to the wondrous Julie Christie.

Ummm....I've never seen it. What's it about? Yes I know I've been living under a rock

Well this is the problem, Keira is always in the sort of films that I really enjoy and I have enjoyed a lot of films despite her. Lady Chatterley was a step too far though, I refuse to watch it.

Anna Karenina I've seen a few versions of but not that one. Is that the one which is set sort of within the theatre, if that makes sense? The BBC needs a russian literature channel.

ha yes same here Anna, I've also always really wanted a massive reindeer skin to go on my bed like they had.

I love the film. LOVE it. I saw it in the cinema when it was rereleased when I was perhaps 10. My mum loved it and really wanted to go, and took me because it was easier than finding a babysitter. I was a bit too young and didn't get it, but I loved the bits with Varykino all frosted up and covered in snow. Watched it again on telly regularly as I got older, gradually seeing and understanding more of it as I went along. My GOD Omar Sharif was beautiful. I really love Alec Guinness in it too. The bit that gets me every time is always "can you play the balalaika.... ah... it must be a gift!"

I tried reading the book once, it's awful. Far too dull and convoluted. And I didn't enjoy the Keira Knightley one at all.

The film was amazing, but I could never believe the beautiful Omar and Julie would have produced Rita Tushingham. And we really needed to know what happened to Lara's other daughter too.

Patroclus yes, that's the one, Anna Karenina set in a theatre. No doubt plenty of people would hate it but when it came out it seemed very different and clever and I loved it, and her portraying Anna as a bit of a bunny boiler was an aspect I hadn't seen before, only ever seeing the more romantic side of the Grand passion.

Clawdy we always thought that, bit cruel really but that would be a truly blessed gene pool.

DH loved it too, and amazingly as it was quite late, neither of us nodded off. I've been trying to inflict it on DD's every winter for years and for some reason they have resisted but this year the combined force of both parents mean our Christmas viewing is now planned.
Apart from DDs , and buying the wrong dvd, I don't know why I haven't seen it for so many years, I loved it when I saw it as a teen, seeing it again there are so many bits I had forgotten about, mostly I remembered very visual images of the snow and beautiful ice palace and the ending.
I need to see it again soon to take it all in better. Also wondering about the other daughter. Not to mention his family who fled to Paris.

Clawdy But his son definitely looked like a product of the genes.

It's a classic like Gone with the wind.

The other daughter (Katenka) either goes away with Komarovsky forever when Lara is tricked to go with him, or goes into the gulag with Lara, or presumably an orphanage for ''enemy of the people''.

I think I always reacted to the story wrongly. Tonya was my hero, Yuri I thought was a twat and Lara not much better.

Though the film came out in 1965, DH and I didn't see it until 1968.It was our first proper date
I've just asked him what he remembers about it and he said that I leaned over as in going in for a snog but instead whispered They'll catch their bloody death if they don't shut the door.
He later bought me a trinket box that played 'Lara's Theme' 50 years on I still have it and despite being mauled by DC and DGC still plays.

Agree Patroclus
Lara tried to do the right thing to begin with but temptation....and Yuri cared for anyone but his loving wife. Tonya the true hero.