Doctor Zhivago is a heartbreaking epic romance set during the final daysof Czarist Russia. Raised as an aristocrat Zhivago is a political idealist physician and poet whose life is tossed by the tides of history as he is tornbetween a life with his close childhood friend and wife and the passionateand mysterious Lara. Zhivago however is not alone in his yearnings for Lara and must compete with both revolutionaries and aristocracy alike to win theheart of the woman he cannot live without.