Hi-ho, Zhivago [Archive]

hugsandmarxism

9th January 2009, 23:22

I saw an interesting film recently (well, the better part of a film), which is apparently rather famous, entilted Doctor Zhivago. The backdrop of this love story is the Russian Revolution. It was made in the west at the height of the cold war, and thus contains an anti-bolshevik, anti-communist slant, yet for the most part, it seemed to be much more fair and insightful than I would have expected from the western media in 1965. Thoughts?

(here's the imdb for it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059113/)

Woland

9th January 2009, 23:26

Its a book!! I bet no-one here even knows where my username comes from :(

hugsandmarxism

9th January 2009, 23:30

Its a book!! I bet no-one here even knows where my username comes from :(

I'm assuming the book is better then... since that is often the case. Any thoughts?

Angry Young Man

10th January 2009, 02:12

Wasn't Pasternak pro-Bolshevism?

And despite his acclaim, Russian readers say that his prose is dreadful.