Boris Pasternak’s inspiration behind the novel was apparently his own love affair with a woman named Olga Ivinskaia, as told through the letters, manuscripts, and poems written by Pasternak that were discovered after Olga’s death in 1995. While the story itself might be fictional, the inspiration behind it as well as the subsequent events surrounding it, are very much real. When publication in the Soviet Union was declined, Pasternak smuggled the manuscript to Milan, where it finally saw the light of day. The novel, for which Pasternak received the Nobel Prize for Literature, was quite controversial in the USSR as it had anti-Communist sentiments weaved into it. Written by Robert Bolt, the screenplay was adapted from the eponymous novel by Boris Pasternak, which was published in 1957. But is there any truth behind this volatile love story? Look no further, for we have the answers for you! A complex and intriguing romance set against the rise of Communism in the USSR, ‘Doctor Zhivago’ knows how to capture the imagination. Directed by David Lean, the 1965 film stars Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, and Tom Courtenay.
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