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  • Doctor Zhivago Episode #1.1 (Season 1, Episode 1)
  • TV Episode | 112 min | Drama, Romance

Doctor Zhivago

Episode #1.1 (Season 1, Episode 1)
TV Episode | 112 min | Drama, Romance

A life of purpose and contented bourgeois respectability lies before young physician Yury Zhivago as he marries Tonya, his dearest friend. But a glimpse of an ethereally beautiful girl--and the power of the popular uprising boiling over in...See moreA life of purpose and contented bourgeois respectability lies before young physician Yury Zhivago as he marries Tonya, his dearest friend. But a glimpse of an ethereally beautiful girl--and the power of the popular uprising boiling over in the streets of Moscow--take his life on a very different course. Betrayed by her mother, and by her own awakened sensuality, Lara loathes what she is becoming in the grip of the manipulative Komarovsky. Marriage to Pasha, the earnest partisan who has always adored her, promises to be her salvation. See less
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Writers
Andrew Davies (screenplay) | Annamaria Morelli (story editor) | Boris Pasternak (novel)
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Nov 24, 2002

Release date
Nov 24, 2002 (United States)
Awards
Series awards
5 nominations

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Cast

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30 cast members
Name Known for
Sam Neill
Victor Komarovsky Victor Komarovsky   See fewer
Alexandra Maria Lara
Tonya Gromyko Zhivago Tonya Gromyko Zhivago   See fewer
Sam MacLintock
Little Yury Little Yury   See fewer
Daniella Byrne
Little Tonya Little Tonya   See fewer
Nick Stewart
Orthodox Priest Orthodox Priest   See fewer
Jeremy Clyde
Professor Professor   See fewer
Daniele Liotti
Misha Gordon Misha Gordon   See fewer
Anne-Marie Duff
Olya Demina Olya Demina   See fewer
Maryam d'Abo
Amalia Guishar Amalia Guishar   See fewer
Robert Orr
Agitator Agitator   See fewer
Kris Marshall
Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov   See fewer
Karel Dobrý
Mayakovsky Mayakovsky   See fewer
Hugh Bonneville
Andrey Zhivago Andrey Zhivago   See fewer
John Comer
Bolshevik Infiltrator Bolshevik Infiltrator   See fewer
Honza Klimer
Convoy Officer Convoy Officer   See fewer
Sylvia Syms
Madame Fleury Madame Fleury   See fewer
Jan Travnicek
Sasha Zhivago Sasha Zhivago   See fewer
Jan Unger
Vassya Vassya   See fewer
Philip Lenkowsky
Remaining Villager (as Phil Lenkowsky) Remaining Villager (as Phil Lenkowsky)   See fewer
Rudolf Pellar
Mikulytsin (as Rudolph Pellar) Mikulytsin (as Rudolph Pellar)   See fewer
Anna Rust
Katya Katya   See fewer
Rick Warden
Liberius Liberius   See fewer
Stuart Penn
Mutilated Man Mutilated Man   See fewer
Celia Imrie
Anna Gromyko Anna Gromyko   See fewer
Keira Knightley
Lara Antipova Lara Antipova   See fewer
Hans Matheson
Yury Zhivago Yury Zhivago   See fewer
Bill Paterson
Alexander Gromyko Alexander Gromyko   See fewer
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