Doctor Zhivago

The film is set against a backdrop of pre-World War I years, World War I itself, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the Russian Civil War. It is set in the late 1940s or early 1950s and involves KGB Lieutenant General Yevgraf Andreyevich Zhivago (Alec Guinness) searching for the daughter of his half-brother, Doctor Yuri Zhovago.