Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women. In the shadow of all these grand political change we see that everything is governed by the basic human longing for companionship. Zhivago and Pasha, in love with the same women, both traverse Russia in these volatile times in search of such stability.