Pasternak (1965)

6.7/10 9 min Documentary

Overview

Using still pictures and newsreel footage, this short film tells the life story of Russian author Boris Pasternak, who was forced by the Russian government to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize in literature for his novel Dr. Zhivago.

Cast

David Lean

Self (archive footage)

Alec Guinness

Self (archive footage)

Omar Sharif

Self (archive footage)

Geraldine Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Julie Christie

Self (archive footage)

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