Doctor Zhivago
(DVD) 

Based on the novel by Boris Pasternak.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1965.

Special features: Disc 1: Commentary by Omar Sharif, Rod Steiger and Sandra Lean; new commemorative two-part 45th-anniversary retrospective "Doctor Zhivago: a celebration" (40 min.). Disc 2: "Doctor Zhivago: the making of a Russian epic" documentary (60 min.); cast & crew: selected film highlights; "Zhivago: behind the camera with David Lean" (10 min.); "David Lean's film of Doctor Zhivago" (7 min.); "Moscow in Madrid" (5 min.); "Pasternak" (9 min.); New York press interviews of Julie Christie (10 min.) and Omar Sharif (19 min.)(); ; Geraldine Chaplin screen test (4 min.); "This is Julie Christie (1 min.); "This is Geraldine Chaplin (1 min.); "This is Omar Sharif (2 min.); "Chaplin in New York" (2 min.); theatrical trailer (4 min.).

Director of photography, Freddie Young ; film editor, Norman Savage ; music, Maurice Jarre.

Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson, Omar Sharif, Rod Steiger, Rita Tushingham.

Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature themes.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (letterbox, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital stereo. surround, dual-layer.

English (Dolby 5.1), dubbed French (Dolby 5.1) or dubbed Spanish (Dolby stereo.) dialogue, French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.