Doctor Zhivago
“A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution”
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.
Genres
Drama, Romance, War
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Language
en
Status
Released
How Doctor Zhivago performed
Budget
$11.0M
Worldwide Gross
$111.9M
Gross Profit
$100.9M
Return
10.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$16M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Dr. Yuri Zhivago
Omar Sharif
Dr. Yuri Zhivago
Lara Antipova
Julie Christie
Lara Antipova
Tonya Gromeko
Geraldine Chaplin
Tonya Gromeko
Viktor Komarovsky
Rod Steiger
Viktor Komarovsky
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Alec Guinness
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
Tom Courtenay
Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
Anna
Siobhán McKenna
Anna
Alexander Gromeko
Ralph Richardson
Alexander Gromeko
The Girl
Rita Tushingham
The Girl
Amelia
Adrienne Corri
Amelia
The Bolshevik
Bernard Kay
The Bolshevik
Medical Professor
Geoffrey Keen
Medical Professor
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