David Lean's film of Dr. Zhivago (1965) - An Extended Trailer

'David Lean's film of Dr.Zhivago' was produced in 1965 as an extended promotional trailer.

Pre-release screenings had some critics denigrating the film for what they described as 'romanticization of the revolution' (even though the film was essentially true to Boris Pasternak book upon which it was based). The film was big budget and broadcast adverse criticism had to be overcome to recover costs from ticket sales - so a mass of promotional material was made by the studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and widely distributed.

In the end people ignored the critics and Dr Zhivago made about 10 times its budget with massive ticket sales. However, David Lean was wounded by some of the criticism from the professional pundits and became somewhat embittered.

An unfortunate character flaw of David Lean was his inability to deal with criticism, even when he knew it was not genuine and only done to be controversial to sell copy.