Pasternak - Translations - and new Russian film version

[Pat]

Dear Colleagues:

Since Professors Kerr and Brewer weighed in on the translation questions (I 
agree; Hayward and Harari translation is what it out there for use in the 
classroom anyway) - I would like to ask if anyone on the list has seen the 
new Russian film (DVD) version of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO.

It was produced in 2006 by Central Partnership, the director is Alexander 
Proshkin, and Doctor Zhivago is played by Oleg Menshikov.  It is 220 min 
long.

It is drastically different from both the David Lean and the BBC/Masterpiece 
Theatre productions (both of which are dramatially different from each 
other).

I would enjoy engaging in an email discussion with any of you who have 
watched this Russian version. I have told my students in my LIT 227 class 
(Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn) about the vast differences, and they have seen 
one or both of the other films (and read the novel, in English of course). 
But they don't speak Russian, and there are no subtitles. I would like to 
compare scenes, intent, focus, the inclusion of scenes which are figments of 
the producers imagination (but of course, many films made from great novels 
contain such scenes, I know!) and more.

Please email me directly at pburak at twcny.rr.com if you are interested in 
discussing this film.  I'll create our own group on email if enough of us 
are interested in discussing it.  Thanks!

Dr. Patricia A. Burak
Asst. Professor (part-time) College of Arts and Sciences/Department of 
Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244 

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