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Viktor Shklovskiy

Writer, Actor

January 24, 1893 — December 6, 1984 (91 years)
Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer. He is one of the major figures associated with Russian formalism.

Known For

  • Bed and Sofa
    Bed and Sofa1927
  • By the Law
    By the Law1926
  • The House on Trubnaya
    The House on Trubnaya1928
  • Three Fat Men
    Three Fat Men1963
  • The Steel Road
    The Steel Road1929
  • Minin and Pozharsky
    Minin and Pozharsky1939
  • The Tale of the Golden Rooster
    The Tale of the Golden Rooster1967
  • Chuk and Gek
    Chuk and Gek1953
  • Alisher Navoiy
    Alisher Navoiy1948
  • The Cossacks
    The Cossacks1961
  • Prostitute
    Prostitute1927
  • Under Sunny Skies
    Under Sunny Skies1948
  • The Ballad of Bering and His Friends
    The Ballad of Bering and His Friends1971
  • Cossacks
    Cossacks1928

Filmography

1971
Ballada o Beringe i ego druzyakh
1967
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel
1963
Three Fat Men · as Screenplay
1961
Kazaki
1953
Chuk and Gek · as Screenplay
1948
Under Sunny Skies
1948
Alisher Navoy
1939
Minin i Pozharskiy
1932
House of Death
1931
Mamobili
1929
Turksib
1929
The Last Attraction · as Screenplay
1928
Kazakebi
1928
Dom na Trubnoy
1927
Bed and Sofa
1926
By the Law
1926
The Wings of a Serf

1971
Ballada o Beringe i ego druzyakh · as Vstupitelnoye Slovo V Filme
1932
House of Death · as Petrashevsky

1969
Effekt Kuleshova · as Self

1998
Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood · as Russian Screenplay
1927
Prostitutka · as Dialogue