Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

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Corrected entry: Pasha's face is injured by a Cossack saber. When he comes to Lara's home, successive scenes have the cut on the right and left side of his face.

Correction: The shots of Pasha's face with the saber injury are seen in a mirror when he is applying iodine to it, so it only appears to jump from side to side.

Correction: Dr. Zhivago does not use the pen until several hours after they have been in the house and warmed-up the room. After first arriving at the icy house during the day, there is a fade to show the passage of time where it is now night and the woman and child are sleeping near a stove with a fire. The room is now completely thawed with no visible ice and that is when he begins to write with the pen.

HuskyMiller

Corrected entry: When we first meet Lara, she is 17, and she calls Viktor "monsieur", even though they are in Moscow.

kh1616

Correction: French was widely spoken by the elite in Czarist Russia.

Continuity mistake: The city railroad scenes were filmed in Spain, and many of the forest railroad scenes were filmed in Finland; in both of those countries, most of the railroad track is broad gauge (the rails are more than 5 feet apart). The plains and mountains railroad scenes were largely shot in Canada, where the rails are "standard gauge": 4' 8 & 1/2" apart. The rails can be seen to jump between far apart and closer together more than once as the movie progresses.

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Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: A nameless number on a list that was lost, or mislaid. That was common in those days.

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Trivia: Geraldine Chaplin, the actress who plays Dr. Zhivago's wife, is the daughter of the silent film actor, Charlie Chaplin. Her maternal grandfather was famed playwright Eugene O'Neill.

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