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