Movie Summary The movie Dr. Zhivago is a love story that takes place during the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. It is a story of Russian people forced to live through many tragedies and tells of the emotional trials of complicated love. The story is set during the fighting of World War I, which goes badly for the Russians and provides timely conditions for a revolution. It is in these circumstances that Dr. Zhivago is drafted several …showed first 75 words of 415 total…

…showed last 75 words of 415 total…hero cannot control is life and his loyalties. He sees suffering peasants and prisoners caused by the revolution. He along with the revolutionaries desires equality and freedom but disapproves of their shallow opinions. Lara, like the revolution, represents an ideal. Yuri longed for her just as the revolutionaries longed for change. His desire for her and the revolutionaries desire for something other than a czarist regime brought only pain and suffering to everyone around them.