Doctor Zhivago (2002)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Doctor Zhivago |
| Original title | Doctor Zhivago |
| Country of production | GB , Germany , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 213 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Giacomo Campiotti |
| script | Andrew Davies |
| production |
Anne Pivcevic , Hugh Warren |
| music | Ludovico Einaudi |
| camera | Blasco Giurato |
| cut | Joe Walker |
| occupation | |
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Doctor Zhivago (Original title: Doctor Zhivago ) is an American - German - British drama from 2002 . Directed by Giacomo Campiotti , the screenplay was written by Andrew Davies based on the novel of the same name from 1957 by Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak .
action
The film is set in Russia before and after the October Revolution . Jurij Schiwago's father entrusts his fortune to the powerful lawyer Victor Komarovsky, who speculates on it. Because of this, the father commits suicide in front of Jurij. Then Jurij lives as an orphan with foster parents.
Jurij becomes a doctor and meets the student Lara Guichard, with whom he falls in love. However, he marries the daughter of his foster parents Tonja Gromyko, who is more in line with his social class. Meanwhile, the mother of the young Lara is afraid of being abandoned by her boyfriend, the very same Victor Komarovsky. To keep him, she delivers Lara to Komarovsky for an affair, but then becomes jealous, argues about her daughter's frequent return home after midnight and wants to kill herself. Jurij Schiwago is called as an emergency doctor and saves Lara's mother's life. Lara finally wants to shoot Komarovsky for constant abuse, but misses.
Lara and her future husband, the revolutionary Pascha Antipow, witness the brutal actions of the Cossacks against the population protesting against the Tsar. Komarovsky reveals to her that he was privy to the plans of state power. Lara mentions the possibility of a revolution, to which Komarovsky replies that a new government would also need him.
After the outbreak of World War I , Zhivago was active at the front. There he is wounded and meets Lara, who works as a nurse and is looking for her husband. The company withdraws and the injured are taken to an estate where Lara becomes the head nurse of Zhivago. Schiwago writes this to his wife, who is jealous of Lara. That's why he sends Lara home.
Soon afterwards, Zhivago also returns home. After the revolution, everyday life was completely changed: the family has lost their social position and has to share their house with numerous other people. Zhivago works in a hospital, where he warns his superiors of a typhoid epidemic - although according to the official guideline this should only come from the propaganda of the enemies of the revolution. His best friend, also a doctor and in love with Tonja, urges him to leave Moscow with his family. He warns Zhivago that he should be reeducated .
Zhivago learns that Lara lives in a place in the Urals. He and his family move to the Urals, where his father-in-law owns an estate. On the journey to the Urals he met a boy who was transported in chains, although he was not guilty of any crime. The boy wants to return to his hometown, but after a few steps he is shot by the people of Commander Strelnikov, who is terrorizing the population. Zhivago is led to this one - it turns out that he previously knew him as Pasha. In a dispute, Strelnikov describes the lives of individuals as meaningless, but then he releases Zhivago.
In the Urals, Zhivago can work as a doctor again. He visits Lara and they live out their love. His wife suspects that something is going on. One day, when he wants to tell her everything and end his relationship with Lara, he is picked up by Bolshevik partisans after visiting Lara, kidnapped and forced to serve as a doctor at the front. After months he manages to escape. Completely exhausted from the long walk in the icy cold, Lara finds him and nurses him back to health. Lara tells him that his family has left the area and that his wife asks him to only come if he completely decides for them. However, Zhivago and Lara resume their relationship.
Komarovsky appears at Lara and tries to get her to flee with him to Vladivostok. He would take Zhivago with him too. Lara's husband has fallen out of favor within the party, and her own position in society is no longer secure. Lara and Schiwago initially refuse, but when Komarovsky Schiwago reports on a second visit that Pascha was shot and Lara is also threatened, he agrees.
Zhivago pretends that he will accompany Lara on her trip with Komarovsky, but in reality does not follow her because he cannot bear Komarovsky, who has only spread destruction. Pascha, who, contrary to Komarovsky's assertion, is still alive, appears and shows remorse for having shot thousands of people senselessly. Zhivago returns to Moscow alone and is looking for his wife there, but she has been expelled abroad.
Lara is pregnant by Schiwago and has a son, whom she also names Jurij. Years later, she returns to Moscow to look for Zhivago. Zhivago is seriously ill and sees Lara and his son walking past a café. He tries to follow Lara but then collapses and dies. Lara says goodbye to the dead man and is arrested and deported shortly afterwards. Her son is left alone with his father's poems in hand.
Reviews
Bob Wake praised the "first class" script and the "energetic" direction on culturevulture.net .
TV Spielfilm magazine wrote that “ Tele-Oper ” was “not free from kitsch, but moving” . It does not come close to the film from 1965 , but offers the viewer an "elaborate and absolutely captivating high-gloss melodrama" with Keira Knightley as the "main attraction" .
According to the Lexicon of International Films , “ the visually powerful, very soulful television history and love drama [...] does not achieve the epic density of David Lean's film classics of 1965, but it does develop its own qualities. “It is“ carried by convincing actors ”.
Awards
Giacomo Campiotti as Best New Director , the film in the Best Drama category and the costume designer Annie Symons were nominated for the BAFTA TV Award in 2003 . The film was nominated for the sound for the RTS Television Award in 2003, followed by a nomination for Best Miniseries for the Golden Satellite Award in 2004 .
backgrounds
The film was shot in Prague and Slovakia . It is often broadcast as a mini- series; the broadcasts have been made so far u. a. In Great Britain, Italy, the USA, Finland, Sweden, Brazil and in German-speaking Switzerland, in Germany the film was first broadcast as a miniseries at Christmas 2007 on the TV station Tele 5 . The same novel was filmed in 1965 with Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in the leading roles as Doctor Zhivago .
literature
- Boris Pasternak : Doctor Zhivago. Roman (original title: Doctor Zhivago ). German by Thomas Reschke and Richard Pietraß (poems). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, 764 pages, ISBN 3-596-11909-X
Web links
- Doctor Zhivago in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Doctor Schiwago in the German synchronous file
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Doctor Zhivago . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2008 (PDF; released as a two-part series).
- ↑ uk.rottentomatoes.com, accessed on December 23, 2003 ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ TV feature film, accessed December 23, 2003
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
- ^ Filming locations for Doctor Zhivago, accessed December 23, 2007
- ^ Opening dates for Doctor Zhivago
