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.

Documentary

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))