Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson: Life is a Novel

Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson: Life is a Novel

200989mRussian

Documentary

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

Cast

Viktor Shklovskiy

Viktor Shklovskiy

Self (archive footage)

Roman Jakobson

Self (archive footage)

Aleksandr Kalyagin

Aleksandr Kalyagin

Viktor Shklovsky (voice)

Sergei Yursky

Sergei Yursky

Roman Jakobson (voice)

Alla Demidova

Alla Demidova

Elsa Triolet (voice)

Aleksandr Bargman

Aleksandr Bargman

Narrator (voice)

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