Doctor Zhivago (Russian: Доктор Живаго) is a 1965 drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak.
The film takes place for ...
Doctor Zhivago (Russian: Доктор Живаго) is a 1965 drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak.
The film takes place for the most part during the tumultuous period of 1905-1921, the years of Bloody Sunday and the 1905 Revolution, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and Russian Civil War, as the regime of Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown and the Soviet Union established. A framing device, from which the film is narrated, takes place in the mid-to-late 1950s, though a specific date is not mentioned.
While working on the soundtrack for Doctor Zhivago, Maurice Jarre was asked by director David Lean to come up with a theme for the character of Lara, played by Julie Christie. Initially Lean had desired to use a well-known Russian song but could not locate the rights to it, and delegated responsibility to Jarre. After several unsuccessful attempts at writing it, Lean suggested to Jarre that he go to the mountains with his girlfriend and write a piece of music for her. Jarre says that the resultant piece was "Lara's Theme", and Lean liked it well enough to use it in numerous tracks for the film. In editing Zhivago, Lean and producer Carlo Ponti reduced or outright cut many of the themes composed by Jarre; Jarre was angry because he felt that an over-reliance on "Lara's Theme" would ruin the soundtrack.
Jarre's fears proved unfounded, however, as the song became an instant hit. The instrumental version of the song gained fame throughout the world. Paul Francis Webster took the theme and added lyrics to it for Somewhere My Love, which became a major hit for Ray Conniff, and various other re-written versions of it have since been released. "Lara's Theme" remains to this day one of the most recognizable movie themes ever written.
The piece is performed on various instruments, most notably the balalaika with orchestral backing. Although never credited, Edgar Stanistreet of Philadelphia was asked to play the song over the phone to an MGM executive, and was later taken into the studio to record.
One of the main reasons the theme is featured in so many tracks is that Jarre had hired an impromptu balalaika orchestra from several Russian Orthodox Churches in Los Angeles; the musicians could only learn 16 bars of music at a time, and could not read written music.
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Это - действительно красивая история любви, в течение драматических и кровавых лет советской революции. Я чувствую себя очень удачливым знакомиться с вашей культурой, и историей вашей страны, и я признаю, что вчера, в конце этого кино, некоторые слезы были в моем лице...
Lara`s beauty blows away every guy in the movie, except Yevgraf (Obi Wan). Though he admits falling for her at the end there. Tragic how he says Lara probably died in a work camp "a nameless number on a list misplaced".
"They don't make a Maurice Jarre or a David Lean anymore." - Finke
Sure they do, they`re just not in movies or music no more. People steal sh%$ nowadays, piracy has completely destroyed the industry. Smart / creative people go to where the money is, it ain`t in music and movies no more.
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Я чувствую себя очень удачливым знакомиться с вашей культурой, и историей вашей страны, и я признаю, что вчера, в конце этого кино, некоторые слезы были в моем лице...
Also the director said the woman was Lara - or at very least Julie Christie filmed it
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"a nameless number on a list misplaced".
Sure they do, they`re just not in movies or music no more. People steal sh%$ nowadays, piracy has completely destroyed the industry. Smart / creative people go to where the money is, it ain`t in music and movies no more.