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.

Rod Steiger
Viktor Komarovsky

Alec Guinness
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

Tom Courtenay
Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov

Siobhán McKenna
Anna

Ralph Richardson
Alexander Gromeko