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Posted by: GoingToRussia

I was talking about Dr. Zhivago to Larisa (Lara) yesterday. I played "somewhere my love", a song from the movie, for her. I didn't know it but the first name of this song was "Lara's Theme". It was originally instrumental, the words were added later by a different person.

Anyway, here is a video with this song showing old photos of Moscow/Russia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBwY...feature=related

I hope you enjoy it as much as I.

Posted by: AkMike

Funny, that's a film that I thought Tanya would like but she did'n't like it at all. It is interesting to note that the book was banned under the Soviets.

Posted by: Buckeye5704

I nice quick Waltz!

Loved it, thanks.

Posted by: Chillidog

I enjoy Dr Zhivago, and it is one of my father's favorite movies. Even though I liked the movie it is hard to get used to Omar Sharif as a Russian. Never have read the book.

Posted by: Legal

Winter's Night (one of the poems of Doctor Zhivago)

Blizzards were blowing everywhere
Throughout the land.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.

As midgets in the summer fly
Towards a flame,
The snowflakes from the yard swarmed to
The window pane.

And, on the glass, bright snowy rings
And arrows formed.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.

And on the white illumined ceiling
Shadow were cast,
As arms and legs and destinies
Fatefully crossed.

Two slippers fell on to the floor
With a light sound,
And waxen tears dripped from the candle
On to a gown.

No object in the misty whiteness
Could be discerned.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.

A mild draught coming from the corner
Blew on the candle,
Seduction's heat raised two wings crosswise
As might an angel.

It snowed and snowed that February
All through the land.
A candle burned upon the table,
A candle burned.

1946. By Boris Pasternak. Translated by Alex Miller.

In Russian

Мело, мело по всей земле
Во все пределы.
Свеча горела на столе,
Свеча горела.

Как летом роем мошкара
Летит на пламя,
Слетались хлопья со двора
К оконной раме.

Метель лепила на стекле
Кружки и стрелы.
Свеча горела на столе,
Свеча горела.

На озаренный потолок
Ложились тени,
Скрещенья рук, скрещенья ног,
Судьбы скрещенья.

И падали два башмачка
Со стуком на пол.
И воск слезами с ночника
На платье капал.

И все терялось в снежной мгле
Седой и белой.
Свеча горела на столе,
Свеча горела.

На свечку дуло из угла,
И жар соблазна
Вздымал, как ангел, два крыла
Крестообразно.

Мело весь месяц в феврале,
И то и дело
Свеча горела на столе,
Свеча горела.

________________________________
Olga (Legal's wife)

Posted by: dagpop

Isn't the money a couple hours long?