Doctor Zhivago - Season 1 Episode 1 Part 1
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 régime collapses.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: ITV1, PBS
- Keyword: civil war, rape, based on novel or book, remake, miniseries, period drama, extramarital affair, russian revolution (1917), bolshevik, 1910s
- Cast: Hans Matheson, Keira Knightley, Sam Neill, Bill Paterson, Celia Imrie, Maryam d'Abo
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