Pasternak

Name: Pasternak
Cast: David Lean, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie

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Using still pictures and newsreel footage, this short film tells the life story of Russian author Boris Pasternak, who was forced by the Russian government to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize in literature for his novel Dr. Zhivago.

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Cast & Crew

Director: Thomas Craven

David Lean

as Self (archive footage)

Alec Guinness

as Self (archive footage)

Omar Sharif

as Self (archive footage)

Geraldine Chaplin

as Self (archive footage)

Julie Christie

as Self (archive footage)

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