Jonathan Myerson's dramatisation of Boris Pasternak's epic tale spanning four decades of war, revolution, passion and terror. Six episodes of approximately one hour each.
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (February, 1890 — May, 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning Soviet Russian poet and writer. In the West he is best known for the epic novel Doctor Zhivago, a tragedy, whose events span through the last period of Tsarist Russia and early days of Soviet Union. Pasternak was brought up in a highly cosmopolitan atmosphere, and visitors to his home included pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and writer Leo Tolstoy.
Dr. Zhivago is an epic novel by Russian poet and writer Boris Leonidovich Pasternak. The novel follows the romance between Yuri Zhivago and Larissa Antipova amid the social upheavals during and after the Russian Revolution. Complex and multi-faceted, Doctor Zhivago is more than a great tragic love story or a panoramic social and political chronicle. It is a novel deeply imbued with humanism and poetic vision.