Top Billed Cast

Omar Sharif
Dr. Yuri Zhivago
Julie Christie
Lara Antipova
Geraldine Chaplin
Tonya Gromeko
Rod Steiger
Viktor Komarovsky
Alec Guinness
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago
Tom Courtenay
Pasha Antipov / Strelnikov
Siobhán McKenna
Anna
Ralph Richardson
Alexander Gromeko
Rita Tushingham
The Girl
Adrienne Corri
Amelia
Bernard Kay
The Bolshevik
Geoffrey Keen
Medical Professor
Klaus Kinski
Kostoyed Amourski
Jeffrey Rockland
Sasha
Gérard Tichy
Liberius
Noel Willman
Razin, Liberius' Lieutenant
Tarek Sharif
Yuri at 8 Years Old
Jack MacGowran
Petya
Mark Eden
Engineer at dam
Erik Chitty
Sergei (Old Soldier)
Roger Maxwell
Beef-Faced Colonel
Wolf Frees
Delegate
Gwen Nelson
Female Janitor
Lucy Westmore
Katya
Lili Muráti
The Train Jumper
Peter Madden
Political Officer
Luana Alcañiz
Mrs. Sventytski (uncredited)
Emilio Carrer
Mr. Sventytski (uncredited)
José María Caffarel
Militiaman (uncredited)
Catherine Ellison
Raped Woman (uncredited)
Víctor Israel
Hospital Inmate (uncredited)
Inigo Jackson
Major (uncredited)
Leo Lähteenmäki
Siberian Husband (uncredited)
María Martín
Gentlewoman (uncredited)
José Nieto
Priest (uncredited)
Ricardo Palacios
Extra (uncredited)
Ingrid Pitt
Extra (uncredited)
Robert Rietti
Kostoyed (voice) (uncredited)
Virgílio Teixeira
Captain (uncredited)
María Vico
Demented Woman (uncredited)
Pilar Gómez Ferrer
(uncredited)
Aldo Sambrell
(uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Apr 02 2023

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 "Komarovs...