The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Carlo Ponti Production
• Omar Sharif
• Julie Christie
• Geraldine Chaplin
• Rod Steiger
• Alec Guinness
• Tom Courtenay
• Siobhán McKenna
• Ralph Richardson