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Christie's breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar (1963). She came to international attention for her performances in Darling (1965), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and Doctor Zhivago (also 1965), the eighth highest-grossing film of all time after adjustment for inflation.
Julie Christie stars as Lara, a political activist's wife who falls in love with a Russian physician and poet, Yuri Zhivago, during the Russian Revolution. The film, directed by David Lean, won five Oscars and is one of the most successful films in movie history.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- David Lean
- 1965-12-31
Julie Christie is a British movie legend who won an Oscar for her role as Lara in Doctor Zhivago (1965). Learn about her life, career, relationships, and other films on IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
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Julie Christie plays Lara, the wife of a Bolshevik leader and the lover of a poet, in this epic romance set in Russia. See photos, quotes, and trivia about her role and the film on IMDb.
The film stars Omar Sharif in the title role as Yuri Zhivago, a married physician and poet whose life is altered by the Russian Revolution and subsequent civil war, and Julie Christie as his love interest Lara Antipova.
Sep 18, 2020 · Learn how the novel by Boris Pasternak, a controversial and banned work in the Soviet Union, became a cinematic masterpiece starring Julie Christie and Omar Sharif. Discover the challenges and controversies of adapting the story of doomed love during the Russian Revolution.
Lara (Julie Christie) has arranged for her powerful older lover Komarovsky (Rod Steiger) to meet and approve her idealistic boyfriend Pasha (Tom Courtenay), in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, 1965.
