Yuri Zhivago is a young doctor and rising poet, about to be married to Anna. He meets Lara (the teenage mistress of a politician) when she tries to kill herself. Lara marries the Bolshevik Antipov, and as the Great War unfolds Yuri and Lara go off to war to tend the wounded, fall in love and lead a passionate affair as the old regime collapses.
Yury returns to Moscow to find his house has been taken over by the Reds. He becomes a surgeon at a Moscow hospital but Mischa advises him to leave Moscow.
Hochkarätigen Neuverfilmung des gleichnamigen Klassikers der Literaturgeschichte von Boris Pasternak. Im Gegensatz zu David Leans Filmklassiker aus dem Jahr 1965 mit Omar Sharif, setzte Regisseur Giacomo Campiotti in seiner Version verstärkt auf Realismus, wodurch ihm ein fesselndes Drama gelang.
