 Using still pictures and newsreel footage, this short tells the life story of Russian author  Boris Pasternak  (qv), who was forced by the Russian government to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize in literature. The story ends with director  David Lean (I)  (qv) selecting the stars who will appear in the film version of Pasternak s greatest novel, _Doctor Zhivago (1965)_ (qv).