Word: lara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Lean, beginning with Great Expectations) and Sir Ralph Richardson, who plays Tonya's father, with Siobhan McKenna as Tonya's mother. To add further strength to the cast, Lean tapped Rita Tushingham (The Girl with Green Eyes), Tom Courtenay (King Rat), and, for the role of Lara's calculating seducer Komarovsky, the film's only American actor, Rod Steiger...
Bowled Over. Lara, in Pasternak's phrase, was "unequaled in spiritual beauty-martyred, stubborn, extravagant, crazy, irresponsible, adored." Besides, during the film she must range in age from 17 to 40. When Lean tested Julie Christie, 24, for Lara, he had seen her only in Billy Liar-in which by simply walking wordlessly down a street she made cinema history. Asked to fly to Madrid for a screen test, Julie figured, "They must be off their nuts," went mainly for the free holiday...
...riddle of life, the riddle of death, the enchantment of genius, of unadorned beauty-these things were ours," wept the beautiful Lara over the body of her lover, Dr. Zhivago. "But the small problems of practical life-things like the reshaping of the planet "these things, no thank you, they are not for us." Soon afterward, the heroine of Poet Boris Pasternak's great novel was arrested by Soviet secret police "and probably died somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the concentration camps of the north." Lara...
...that too required government ap proval. Since her small apartment on Moscow's Potapov Street had been turned over to strangers, she was even dependent on the state for new quarters. But the small problems of practical life were no more for Olga than they had been for Lara. She spent her first day in Moscow at Pasternak's grave...
...desperately suppressed? Not because it contained a political attack on the Soviet regime--that could have been answered. Dr. Zhivago was truly a subversive because he rejected root and branch the whole concept of the revolution. He rejected it by ignoring it, by transcending it through his love for Lara. "You and I," Zhivago tells Lara, "are like Adam and Eve, the first two people who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with--and now at the end of it we are just as naked and homeless...