１９世紀末のロシア。ユーリー・ジバゴは医学の勉強を続けるかたわら詩人としても知られるようになった。幼い頃両親を失い、科学者グロメーコにひきとられた彼は、その家の娘トーニャを愛していた。２人の婚約発表のパーティーの日、近所の仕立屋の娘ラーラは、弁護士コマロフスキーの誘惑から逃れるため、彼に発砲するという事件を起こした。彼女は帝政打倒の革命に情熱をもやす学生パーシャを愛していた。1914年、ロシアは第1次大戦に突入し、ジバゴは医師として従軍し、戦場で看護婦として働らくラーラに再会した。彼は、彼女がパーシャと結婚したと知ったが、彼女への愛をどうすることもできなかった。
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監督: David Lean
脚本: Борис Пастернак / Robert Bolt
音楽: モーリス・ジャール
制作: Carlo Ponti / Arvid Griffen
撮影監督: Freddie Young
David Lean has assembled an excellent cast and together with Maurice Jarre's memorable score and some sweeping cinematography from Freddie Young does considerable justice to the lengthy Pasternak tale of "Yuri" - a Russian physician (Omar Sharif). Alec Guinness, now a General in the Soviet army, takes on the mantle of narrator - using the expertly innocent Rita Tushingham as the conduit for the flashbacks - and gradually we discover that it's all a bit internecine at the start. "Yuri" falls in love with the enigmatic "Lara" (Julie Christie) who just happens to be the love interest for "Komarovsky" (Rod Steiger) who would sell his own mother, he is certainly cheating on her's. Frustrated on that front, he ends up marrying his own cousin "Tonya" (Geraldine Chaplin) but with the end of the Great war looming and the October Revolution subsequently reducing the country to war-torn chaos, nothing is simple as families are split asunder trying to flee the guns and bullets. It turns out that "Lara" ended up marrying Communist big-wig "Pasha" (Tom Courtenay) but the war put paid to that relationship and when "Yuri" discovers this he wonders what might have been! This is a collection of love stories. Love for people, for their country, for a cause - and Lean manages to weave the complexities of the themes without bogging us down in doctrine or too much brutally. We know all of that is going on, but Robert Bolt's inspired screenplay drip feeds us the politics in an eminently appetising fashion whilst ensuring the human stories prevail. The vast expanses of Russia - especially as seen during their train journeys - are impressive, chilling, and allow us a respite from the constant barrage of dialogue that is usually pretty essential in enabling us to follow the plot. If you ever get the chance to sit for three hours and watch this on big screen then take it. This is cinema at it's more powerful and the sheer logistics of mass participation, mass transportation and glorious photography - without a computer to be had - is certainly worth sitting through as this epic washes over you.
