Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson: Life is a Novel (2009)
Overview
A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and émigré linguist Roman Jakobson.
Cast
Viktor Shklovskiy
Self (archive footage)
Aleksandr Kalyagin
Viktor Shklovsky (voice)
Sergei Yursky
Roman Jakobson (voice)
Alla Demidova
Elsa Triolet (voice)
Aleksandr Bargman
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