Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson: Life is a Novel(2009)

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

July 1, 2009

1h 29m

Cast

Viktor Shklovskiy

Self (archive footage)

Roman Jakobson

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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