BBC.The.Real.Doctor.Zhivago.1080p.HDTV.x265.AAC.MVGroup.org_track3_eng Subtitles

At 00:00:04,000, Character said: It's one of the greatest love
stories of the 20th century.

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At 00:00:08,360, Character said: A tale of passion and fear,

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At 00:00:10,840, Character said: set against a backdrop of
revolution and violence.

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At 00:00:14,800, Character said: GUNSHOT

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At 00:00:16,200, Character said: Julie Christie as Lara.

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At 00:00:18,160, Character said: The violent, sensual,
sensitive girl.

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At 00:00:22,200, Character said: Zhivago's great love and mistress.

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At 00:00:25,800, Character said: But our story isn't about
Yuri Zhivago and Lara,

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At 00:00:29,320, Character said: it's about their creator,

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At 00:00:31,280, Character said: Boris Pasternak, a man who became
a prisoner in his own country.

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At 00:00:36,840, Character said: He willingly committed acts of
literary suicide

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At 00:00:39,720, Character said: practically every day.

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At 00:00:42,520, Character said: It may have been the bravest book
ever written.

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At 00:00:45,680, Character said: Pasternak faced penury, public
denunciation and even death.

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At 00:00:51,280, Character said: IN RUSSIAN:

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At 00:01:00,240, Character said: He wanted to have his say and he
knew that it was dangerous.

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At 00:01:04,680, Character said: ARCHIVE: On Stalin's orders,

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At 00:01:06,160, Character said: 75% of the supreme War Council are
murdered.

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At 00:01:08,320, Character said: Pasternak's love of Russia was
always at odds with his

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At 00:01:11,840, Character said: disenchantment with
the brutal Soviet regime.

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At 00:01:16,240, Character said: Writing the book under Stalin was
dangerous,

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At 00:01:19,520, Character said: attempting to get it published
at the height of the Cold War,

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At 00:01:22,720, Character said: even more so.

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At 00:01:36,160, Character said: I would love to know who the
original source was

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At 00:01:38,760, Character said: that British intelligence
g***t the manuscript

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At 00:01:42,040, Character said: from before they gave it to the CIA.

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At 00:01:44,600, Character said: The CIA used every opportunity they
could to catch on to something

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At 00:01:49,880, Character said: cultural to injure the Russians.

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At 00:01:59,360, Character said: Our story begins before the film
won five Oscars

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At 00:02:02,400, Character said: and its author the Nobel Prize.

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At 00:02:06,800, Character said: It's the untold story of
the real Doctor Zhivago,

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At 00:02:09,240, Character said: Boris Pasternak.

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At 00:02:15,600, Character said: Pasternak's only novel,
Doctor Zhivago,

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At 00:02:18,640, Character said: bears witness to one of the greatest
moments of the 20th century -

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At 00:02:22,640, Character said: the Russian Revolution -

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At 00:02:24,720, Character said: and was immortalised in
David Lean's epic film.

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At 00:02:29,200, Character said: From the most widely acclaimed novel
of our generation,

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At 00:02:32,000, Character said: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents
David Lean's film,

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At 00:02:36,000, Character said: of Boris Pasternak's
Doctor Zhivago.

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At 00:02:47,080, Character said: It was on the streets of Moscow

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At 00:02:49,080, Character said: that Boris Pasternak grew up and he
witnessed

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At 00:02:51,960, Character said: the birth throes of the Russian
Revolution 100 years ago.

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At 00:02:57,840, Character said: The book was Pasternak's attempt to
personalise what he experienced and

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At 00:03:02,200, Character said: witnessed through this
momentous time.

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At 00:03:09,280, Character said: An early scene in the film echoes
Pasternak's own feelings towards

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At 00:03:13,440, Character said: the beginnings of the Revolution,

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At 00:03:15,600, Character said: as Imperial cavalry charge
a peaceful protest march,

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At 00:03:19,880, Character said: all seen through the eyes of
Yuri Zhivago.

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At 00:03:32,320, Character said: When I read Doctor Zhivago,

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At 00:03:34,240, Character said: I couldn't help but feel that
Yuri is Pasternak's alter ego.

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At 00:03:38,360, Character said: Yuri, too, is a poet,

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At 00:03:40,360, Character said: tormented by his great loves for
the women in his life and for

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At 00:03:44,440, Character said: Mother Russia, where to this day,

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At 00:03:46,520, Character said: Pasternak is still held in
high regard as a writer.

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At 00:03:51,160, Character said: I welcome you on a tour devoted to
Boris Pasternak,

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At 00:03:54,360, Character said: it is the place where he lived for
many, many years.

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At 00:03:57,760, Character said: This area of Moscow connected with
his life very tightly and connected

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At 00:04:02,600, Character said: with Doctor Zhivago and with
many of his poems.

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At 00:04:06,400, Character said: I joined a tour tracing Pasternak's
early footsteps

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At 00:04:10,360, Character said: in Moscow run by
Anna Sergeeva-Klatis,

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At 00:04:13,400, Character said: a Russian Pasternak scholar and
lecturer at Moscow State University.

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At 00:04:21,120, Character said: Anna, sorry to interrupt,
sorry, everybody.

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At 00:04:23,320, Character said: This is a great turnout,
this evening.

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At 00:04:26,680, Character said: What does that say about
the popularity and in the interest

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At 00:04:30,800, Character said: in Pasternak in Russia now?
Because he's a great writer.

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At 00:04:35,320, Character said: Is that true? Do we all agree?

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At 00:04:37,840, Character said: SHE TRANSLATES TO RUSSIAN

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At 00:04:42,840, Character said: Boris was a Muscovite
from his head to his...

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At 00:04:47,320, Character said: Toes. ..toes.

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At 00:04:48,680, Character said: He spoke like a Muscovite and he
moved like a Muscovite,

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At 00:04:53,960, Character said: he loved Moscow and Moscow
reflected in many of his poems.

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At 00:04:58,880, Character said: He left Moscow
for very short periods.

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At 00:05:01,920, Character said: He spent all his life in Moscow.

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At 00:05:04,760, Character said: What would you say is interesting
about Boris's upbringing?

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At 00:05:08,600, Character said: It was quite bourgeois,
middle-class, wasn't it?

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At 00:05:11,680, Character said: His family was an artistic family.

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At 00:05:13,960, Character said: His father was a famous painter

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At 00:05:17,880, Character said: and he was already famous
when Boris was born.

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At 00:05:22,400, Character said: And his mother was
a very gifted pianist.

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At 00:05:26,680, Character said: They both were very successful,

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At 00:05:29,240, Character said: the atmosphere in the family
was really artistic.

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At 00:05:34,960, Character said: He was very gifted person
from his childhood.

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At 00:05:38,080, Character said: And he began to draw when he was
about 12 years of age.

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At 00:05:42,440, Character said: His father was very satisfied.

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At 00:05:44,680, Character said: He said that he can be a very
talented painter.

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At 00:05:48,040, Character said: But he stopped.

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At 00:05:51,480, Character said: He changed his mind.

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At 00:05:53,320, Character said: And he began to play piano and he
had very good achievements in that,

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At 00:05:58,280, Character said: but he also stopped that.

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At 00:06:00,720, Character said: And then he went into philosophy

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At 00:06:03,760, Character said: and he went to Germany
and he was offered

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At 00:06:07,520, Character said: to continue his education
in Germany because, as a Jew,

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At 00:06:11,480, Character said: he had no way to continue
his career in Russia.

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At 00:06:16,000, Character said: And he refused because he began
to write poetry. He was 22.

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At 00:06:20,600, Character said: That was the beginning.

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At 00:06:23,920, Character said: Having found his true calling,

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At 00:06:25,520, Character said: it was only five years later he saw
the start of the Revolution,

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At 00:06:29,840, Character said: an event that changed his life
and changed Russia forever.

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At 00:06:34,200, Character said: Excited by the Revolution,
Boris never left Russia.

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At 00:06:38,080, Character said: His family were different.

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At 00:06:40,880, Character said: Despite their liberal leanings,

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At 00:06:42,840, Character said: the Pasternak family as a whole took
a wary view of the Revolution.

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At 00:06:47,360, Character said: And when they happened to make
a journey to Germany in 1923,

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At 00:06:51,520, Character said: they took the opportunity to make
the visit permanent

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At 00:06:54,480, Character said: and went into exile.
First there, and later in Oxford.

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At 00:07:01,560, Character said: The family home here is full of
images of Boris's Russian childhood

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At 00:07:05,640, Character said: and the cultural greats who visited
when they lived in Moscow.

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At 00:07:09,720, Character said: This is the garden room.

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At 00:07:11,560, Character said: Being part of the intelligentsia
and cultural aristocracy,

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At 00:07:15,320, Character said: the family had many stellar
visitors,

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At 00:07:17,920, Character said: painted and drawn by Boris's father.

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At 00:07:20,440, Character said: This one you might recognise, this
is Rachmaninov at the piano.

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At 00:07:25,200, Character said: But, for Boris, one visitor
to their Moscow home

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At 00:07:28,120, Character said: stood out more
than any of the others.

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At 00:07:31,160, Character said: Boris remembers as a child being
woken by the sound of a piano

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At 00:07:36,000, Character said: being played solo by his mother and

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At 00:07:38,040, Character said: stumbling out into a room that was
full of people, including Tolstoy,

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At 00:07:41,920, Character said: who was listening to the concert
that she was giving in their house.

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At 00:07:47,200, Character said: This is Tolstoy in his family
estate,

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