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YURY: Love - it's all a mystery. The idea that there's someone

already there in the world who might hold the key to your whole existence.

It's time Lara had a proper grown-up dress.

She's going to be a beauty. 'I couldn't say no, Lara.'

Lara... No!

You are the love of my life.

I love you, Yury. I've always loved you.

'What have you done to that girl?'

She's not for you.

ALL: To Yury and Tonya, the happy couple!

'Pasha, you're the only good person I know.'

PASHA: I want us to know everything about each other.

You think you can get away from me? You will never get away from me.

Do you think you can save me, Pasha?

MARCHING ORDERS IN RUSSIAN

How is she? Let me see her. No, this is women's work.

This is no place for us men, not even doctors.

BABY CRIES

BABY BAWLS

BABY GURGLES

LARA & CHILDREN: ..la plaine, couronnes

de thyme et de marjolaine.

Les elves joyeux, dansent sur la plaine.

Ah, oui, tres bien. That was very good.

Good. Well done.

Now you all know a poem in French.

Go home and tell your mothers. They should be very, very proud of you.

All right. Stand up.

Turn left.

And out you go. Well done, a good day.

Have a lovely afternoon. Well done.

Well done, Ivan, that was really good. Well done.

Men of Yuryatin, we must all stand shoulder to shoulder.

Now is your chance to fight for our beloved tsar

against the German invader.

Good night, my darling.

She's asleep. Good.

Shall we go to bed early for a change?

You go. I'll finish these.

Go on.

You go now...if you like.

No, I'll wait for you.

Would you like something to drink?

Something to eat maybe?

Pasha...

Don't look at me like that.

I can't bear it, Lara. I can't go on like this.

I can't keep...pretending...

..even if you can.

How do I pretend?

You pretend that you love me.

You've never loved me at all.

I can see it...

..every time you look at me,

though you try so hard.

Pasha, it is not true. I do love you.

I'm happy here with you and Katya.

We've made a good life here.

We haven't. It's a sham. You know that as well as I do.

DISTANT TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS

Another troop train.

The best thing I can do is go to the front.

Don't be silly. You don't mean it.

You treat me like a child...

..as if I were your little boy.

I wanted to be your man.

SHOUTING

GRUNTING AND GROANING

SOLDIER: Heave!

Heave!

Are you the surgeon?

Yes, I am.

Poor devils. Smashed up in a war that has nothing to do with them.

Patch 'em up and send 'em back to the front. Isn't that right?

Wake up! You've been fighting the wrong enemy!

Don't kill the Germans,

kill the landlords,

kill the bosses!

Back home - that's where the real war will be!

SHOT

Go! Move! Move!

DISTRESSED NEIGHING

SOLDIER: Go on! Go on!

Pasha.

Pasha? Pasha!

Pasha!

Mama.

Katya.

(SNIFFS TEARFULLY)

I'll find him.

RIFLE AND MACHINE-GUN FIRE

Ahh!

Keep going, comrades!

GUNFIRE

GUNFIRE

Onwards! (SHOUTS)

SOLDIER: Retreat!

Retreat! No!

Retreat! Onwards, comrades!

Onwards!

Please - come back.

GUNFIRE

Onwards!

Come on!

No!

Come back!

DISTANT SHOUTING AND GROANING

ANGUISHED GROANING

(MAN SCREAMS IN PAIN)

MAN: Help. Help.

Help us.

Lara, come.

Do you have news about Pasha?

EXPLOSION

MAN: Help!

Help me!

Help!

EXPLOSION

GROANS OF AGONY

Help me!

GUNFIRE

Help!

ANGUISHED SHOUTING

Help me! Ahh!

Help me.

Help!

Nurse.

I'm sorry, I...

I know you...don't I?

Do you?

Yes.

One night, years ago

at a party in Moscow.

You...

There was an accident.

Oh, that.

Nice name for it.

I shot the wrong man - that was the accident.

You needn't worry. I'm not like that any more.

I won't shoot you.

There was a time before that, wasn't there? Your mother was ill.

I was hoping you wouldn't remember me.

I don't think I made a very good impression on you.

You made an impression.

So what brought you here?

I left my little girl behind in Yuryatin

and I came to try to find my husband.

But I've heard that he's missing, presumed dead.

I'm so sorry. Perhaps I'd better tell you now,

I'm not a trained nurse. I've learnt everything here, but -

I think you're managing very well.

It's good to meet you properly at last.

(CHUCKLES) I don't even know your name.

SHOUTING AND HUBBUB People call me Lara.

It's started. There's fighting in St Petersburg.

It's the revolution!

SHOUTS OF EXCITEMENT

Yury Zhivago.

Pleased to meet you.

Vive la revolution!

SHOUTS OF DELIGHT

DISTANT EXPLOSIONS

Argh!

Keep still. You're very brave.

Argh. Keep still.

There. It's over.

EXPLOSION

Here.

Thank you.

Are you longing for home too? Yes.

Aren't you?

Mm.

Are you married?

Yes.

So what's she called, your wife?

Tonya.

It's strange to think of her so far away.

Feels like another world.

We have a son, too. Sasha.

Sasha.

Yury, Tonya and Sasha.

You're utterly contented?

Yes.

SHOUTING

They're coming!

They're coming!

The Germans have broken through!

You'd better get out while you can.

What about the wounded?

There's a cottage hospital at Biryuchi.

You could try to take them there. How?

I can let you have one more cart, that's all.

Come on, pack up!

The war's as good as over. The Germans are...

SHOUTING DROWNS SPEECH

EXPLOSION

I'm going with the wounded.

What about you?

(Lara. Look.)

No!

No. Oh, no!

No. It's impossible.

No more soldiers, please!

The house is full of them already.

Look, no more blood, no more germs.

Oh, please, please.

Look, take them somewhere else.

Madam, madam, I understand. But this is Dr Zhivago.

He's come to sort everything out.

He's a very famous doctor from Moscow and a true gentleman.

What a perfect couple you make.

Well...well, since I have no choice anyway...

..welcome to my house, Dr Zhivago.

(GIGGLES) Well, well, come, come.

Come on, come on.

(GIGGLES)

Come.

COUGHING AND WHEEZING

"My dearest Tonya,

I think of you and Sasha constantly.

With all the troubles in Moscow,

I feel almost guilty to be in such a peaceful backwater.

I've even found time to write some poems."

"An odd coincidence -

do you remember that wild girl who shot Sventitsky?

Would you believe, she's my chief nurse here?"

"Her name is Lara Antipova

and I don't know how I would manage without her."

"We are both trying to get away, but it's not easy."

"Either there are no trains at all or else they are so full

that there is no hope of getting in."

Tonya, you're imagining things.

Am I? With that wonderful nurse by his side?

DOOR OPENS

Oh, just looking for...

Ah, there they are.

He's writing poems about her.

And he feels "almost guilty".

Well, he needn't feel guilty at all.

I wrote and told him that he should go away with her.

And he needn't worry, his son will still be brought up to honour him.

Oh, please, Tonya, this is all nonsense.

Any man lucky enough to get you would never let you go.

Misha.

(TEARFULLY) I love him so much.

So much.

(SOBS)

Good night, Dr Zhivago.

Good night.

(GIGGLES)

GRUNTING AND GROANING

(MEN CHEER)

Ah, Doctor, a letter for you.

From Moscow.

Lara.

I'm sure there's going to be trouble here soon.

We could be in danger.

I wish you'd leave before anything happens.

We aren't in any danger here.

I think we are, Lara.

I've got the permits.

It'll be so strange to leave this place.

I suppose in a way I thought we'd be here for ever.

And now...I'll be with Katya in Yuryatin...

..and you'll be in Moscow.

And we'll never see each other again.

One day someone will ask you,

"Do you happen to know a place called Biryuchi?

There was a nurse there called Antipova."

And you'll say, "No.

No, I can't say that I do.

One visits so many places and meets so many people in a lifetime."

It won't be like that.

I won't ever forget this time.

Things won't ever be the same for us.

We've been very good here, haven't we?

(SIGHS)

I wish...

..I wish I could live two lives.

My own...

and to see you well and happy.

To know you weren't in need of anything.

I'm sure you'll find someone you could be happy with.

Of course, I'd want to knock his teeth out.

This is what I was afraid of.

I'd better go and pack.

Thank you, Doctor.

Take care of yourself.

Goodbye, Lara. Have a safe journey.

And you.

I'll always think of you.

Take care of yourself, Yury.

TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS

CHILDREN SHOUT

# SINGING: The Internationale

Yes? Hello.

I'm Dr Zhivago. This is my home.

BOTH: Comrade Demina!

Yes, it's all right. I'll deal with it.

Yury.

I'd forgotten how beautiful you are.

I'm so sorry about that stupid letter.

It's all over now.

I'm home. No lice from the train?

Doesn't matter. So happy to see you.

Can I help you?

Other way round, comrade, I think you'll find.

Yury, this is Comrade Demina.

She lives here now.

She's in charge of accommodation for the whole area.

Come in and see Sasha. He's such a big boy now.

We are in there. It's really very cosy.

We have our own stove and everything.

How many people actually live here?

There's six families.

Comrade Demina is very good to us. We have two whole rooms

to ourselves.

You know, mostly it's one family in a room.

We are very lucky.

I'm afraid of Sasha picking up something.

There's typhus in the slums.

Shh.

Here he is, my big boy.

Look, Sasha, it's your papa.

Sasha.

Sasha. Hello.

Do you remember me? Sasha!

Why did you do that? He's your papa. Tonya, Tonya...

he's so used to just you.

Yury. Good to have you home, dear boy.

Misha Gordon, Director of Holy Cross Hospital.

So how did you do it? Joined the party,

went to all the meetings. Spoke at all the meetings.

By the way, it's the Second Reform Hospital now, all right?

Yury, you have to understand. I can't do you any favours.

I'm not expecting any favours.

I just want to work. Tonya tells me there's a typhus epidemic.

There is no typhus epidemic.

There is a lot of irresponsible, anti-government propaganda.

It's essential that the people get the right information.

I want to put you in charge of statistics.

It's probably the most important task of all.

Staff efficiency, political consciousness -

More important than treating the sick?

We didn't go in for medicine to fill in forms and spy on our colleagues.

Come on. This is a joke, isn't it?

You're still writing your poetry?

Yes. Of course.

I should keep it to yourself... if I were you.

By the way,

from now on it's Comrade Director and Comrade Dr Zhivago, all right?

Of course, Comrade Director.

You'll get used to it.

Comrade Zhivago!

The meeting began 40 minutes ago. The director says

you must come immediately. With pleasure.

PATIENTS: What about us? Doctor! Here!

Late again, Comrade Zhivago.

What's your excuse this time?

There's a typhus epidemic in the hospital.

C Ward must be isolated immediately.

What are you trying to do to me? I'm doing my job.

I say what your job is, not you.

I won't have you spreading panic. That is a capital offence.

I'm simply telling the truth, Misha. Yury!

Yury.

You've been recommended for re-education.

What? I can't protect you any more.

You want my advice, take your family and leave Moscow.

Go as far as you can, and keep your head down when you get there.

I don't want to leave Moscow.

This is my home.

There's work for me to do here, more than I can cope with. You know that.

What do you want to do?

Do you want to practise medicine in Siberia?

Think about Tonya,

if you are too noble to think about yourself.

You and your principles.

You don't deserve that lovely girl.

SHOUTING

GUNSHOT

(SHOUTS)

Good evening, Comrade Doctor. I see you're getting the hang of things.

I could turn you in for that. Scavenging is forbidden.

It's all right.

Any friend of Lara's

is a friend of mine.

Lara Antipova?

You know Lara?

I used to sew dresses in her mother's workshop.

Is she all right?

She's back in Yuryatin. In the Urals.

Did she mention me to you?

When next I write, I'll tell her you were asking after her, shall I?

So...what are we going to do?

Well, there's always the Varykino estate.

It belonged to your mother's family before it was confiscated.

It's been empty for years, but we could open it up again, perhaps.

Varykino? Mm-hm.

I always longed to see it.

Where is it exactly?

It's in the Urals.

It's hard to describe. It's very remote.

Nearest town is Yuryatin. Yuryatin?

They didn't name it for you, you know!

But I think it's a good omen.

We can grow vegetables and support ourselves.

Better than starve here, dying like sheep without a struggle.

Hm. Yes.

This way. This way.

TRAIN WHISTLE

CLAMOUR

Excuse me! We have tickets for the special coach!

No special coaches here, grandad.

Excellent. Ha!

If you see the steward,

will you ask him to bring me a brandy and soda, Tonya?

Are we going very fast?

I think we are.

Or perhaps we're standing still,

and it's the world that's whizzing past us.

Don't worry, my boys.

Shove up.

All right, little one. I won't let him get you.

Any trouble from him -

bang! Bang!

Don't worry, son. I'll introduce them.

Little Vassya. My pride...and joy.

Hey! Get back.

What did you do?

Nothing.

It was my uncle. He was arrested.

He asked for a moment to say goodbye to my aunt,

but he never came back.

DOOR CLOSES So they took me.

Why don't you let the boy go? I can't.

He cried his eyes out at first but he is fine now.

Aren't you?

Well, at least you could take the chains off.

It's not as if he's going anywhere, is it?

Well, madam...

..just for you.

BABY CRIES

CRIES OF DISTRESS

What happened, friend?

Strelnikov.

He's not a man like you or me, Strelnikov.

He is a force of nature. He's the angel of death.

Excuse me. What's happening? Orders from up ahead.

We have to wait. For how long?

I know this place.

There's Buysky village.

I lived there before I came to Moscow.

That's my river.

You keep following the river.

That's my village.

That's where my mother lives

and my two little sisters.

Vassya...

Go. Go.

GUNSHOT

No!

No!

No!

No.

(SOLDIER SHOUTS ORDER)

Comrade Strelnikov. We've got him.

Good. Bring him through.

This isn't the man.

In fact, he looks nothing like him.

My apologies, comrade. They mistook you for someone else.

You are free to go.

Just a minute.

Let me see your papers.

Zhivago.

Please sit down.

So you are a doctor, are you? Yes.

You used to be a poet.

I still am.

Extraordinary. I heard you read once, you know.

Things we do when we are young!

Poetry readings.

Where are you going?

I'm travelling with my family to Varykino.

It's near Yuryatin.

Yes. I know where it is.

I have a wife and child in Yuryatin. Well, I had.

I haven't see them since the war.

What does that matter? Hm?

The private life, love and so on -

it's all dead and gone now, don't you agree?

We have more important things to do.

In any case,

it was always a delusion.

It's the only thing that makes life worth living.

That's a very subversive notion.

There was a young boy outside.

All he wanted was to get back to his family,

and your men shot him. Like a rabbit.

Why?

Individual deaths don't matter.

Have you killed many people, Dr Zhivago?

I've killed thousands.

Enemies of the revolution. Good men with mistaken ideas, a lot of them.

The end justifies the means.

Does it?

Perhaps I should have you shot after all.

However, I said you were free, and I don't break my word.

This time I'll let you go.

Next time may be different.

TRAIN WHISTLE

Yury! Yury, hurry!

Hurry! Yury!

Yury!

Yury, hurry! Yury!

Yury! Hurry!

Come on! Help us.

Please. Please, please...

Tonya.

I met Strelnikov.

It's all right.

Where is Vassya, Papa?

Come here, my boy.

Come here.

He went home.

He went home.

Alexander Alexandrovich.

Dr Zhivago.

You see, you were expected.

In any case, another doctor's always welcome in this town.

Until Monday, then.

It'll be good to have you on board.

Zhivago.

Put your buckets down. I'll carry them.

No. You'd only spill them and splash the stairs.

I didn't think you'd come.

You've been at Varykino a whole year.

You knew? Of course.

Things get around.

I saw you in the library.

Why didn't you speak to me?

Don't tell me you didn't see me.

I keep the key up there when I go out.

Give me your hand. It's dark inside.

Listen...

..you could turn around, walk down the stairs, and go home.

No.

I can't.

I know.

I don't want you to.

Read it again. It's beautiful.

Come in, then.

Come and show me.

Mm-hm. And behind your ears?

Ohh, clean as a new pin!

Now, go on.

Give Yury a kiss.

Go on!

Good night, Yury. Good night.

Will you be here in the morning?

Yes.

When's Daddy coming home?

I don't know, darling.

Come on.

Go on. Night night. Sweet dreams.

I tried to go and see him when he came to Yuryatin.

When his ADC asked me what my business was,

I said "Personal",

and they wouldn't let me in.

You still love him, don't you?

I married him.

If Strelnikov turned into Pasha,

if he wanted me back,

I would go to him.

No.

No, I don't mean that.

I love you.

What is it? What's wrong with you?

Did something happen in town?

Tell me.

You know you'll feel better when you've told me.

HORSE NEIGHS

RECEDING HOOFBEATS

I have to tell her.

I know.

What will you do?

(SNIFFS)

Don't say it.

I'll be fine.

No, don't. I'll be fine. Don't. Don't.

(SOBS)

Don't move, Doctor.

We are conscripting you into the Partisan Battalion of the Red Army.

Whoa! Dr Zhivago.

I'm sorry we had to kidnap you. Our surgeon was killed last week.

If you obey orders, Doctor,

you will not be harmed. If not...

LAUGHTER

Can you get word to my wife of what's happened to me?

And your mistress?

LAUGHTER

(HORSE NEIGHS) GUNFIRE

What's your name? Larissa Antipova.

KOMAROVSKY: You are in great danger.

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