A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and émigré linguist Roman Jakobson.
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Viktor Shklovskiy as Self (archive footage)
Roman Jakobson as Self (archive footage)
Aleksandr Kalyagin as Viktor Shklovsky (voice)
Sergei Yursky as Roman Jakobson (voice)
Alla Demidova as Elsa Triolet (voice)
Aleksandr Bargman as Narrator (voice)
Vladimir Nepevny Director
Vladimir Nepevny Writer
Evgeny Goncharuk Director of Photography
Vladimir Nepevny Editor
Russia 01 July 2009
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