Later, with "Doctor Zhivago", he invested Boris Pasternak's novel with the characteristic Bolt sense of narrative and dialogue – human, short and telling. "The Bounty" was Bolt's first project after a stroke, which affected not only his movement, but his speech. In it, Fletcher Christian takes the "Lawrence" role of a man in tension with his society who in the process loses touch with his own identity. "The Mission" was Bolt's final film project, and once again represented his thematic preoccupations, this time with 18th-century Jesuits in South America.