Doctor Zhivago
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Across the tumultuous decades of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Russian Civil War, a sensitive Moscow physician and poet is torn between his devoted aristocratic wife and the passionate, tragic nurse Lara, surviving revolutionary famines and Ural partisans to write his greatest poems in an icy, snow-frosted dacha in Yuriatin. David Lean's five-time Oscar-winning historical romance summit starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie with Maurice Jarre's 'Lara's Theme'.
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