Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson: Life is a Novel

A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and émigré linguist Roman Jakobson.

Release Date: 2009-07-01

Documentary

Casts

Viktor Shklovskiy

Self (archive footage)

Aleksandr Kalyagin

Viktor Shklovsky (voice)

Sergei Yursky

Roman Jakobson (voice)

Alla Demidova

Elsa Triolet (voice)

Aleksandr Bargman

Narrator (voice)

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