Doctor Zhivago Poster
As soon as Boris Pasternak’s forbidden novel Doctor Zhivago was published in Italy in 1957, Hollywood’s MGM studio went after the rights for the film. Finally completed in 1965, the movie was a cold war blockbuster—an epic of life and love in postrevolutionary Russia. The opening scene, invented for the movie, was a grim Soviet factory, while the story itself was more or less symbolized in this advertising poster highlighting two incredibly attractive people who fall in love and are torn apart by the crushing Bolshevik system. (MGM / The Kobal Collection at Art Resource, NY.)