Yura (also Yuri) Zhivago attends his mother's funeral. He is only ten years old and takes the loss hard. A short while later, his father jumps off a moving train, committing suicide. Orphaned and penniless due to his father's squandering of the family's wealth, Yuri is raised by others who send him to school.
Lara, a young schoolgirl, becomes involved in an affair with a much older man, Komarovsky. She tries to shoot him dead one night at a Christmas party. Yuri sees Lara occasionally but does not have any relationship with her at this point.
Yuri earns his degree in medicine and becomes Dr. Zhivago. Lara marries Pasha and starts a family in her hometown, Yuriatin. Yuri marries Tonia, a young woman with whom he had grown up. World War I begins, and Dr. Zhivago serves as.....
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