The film script as oral narrative of personal experience in Aleksandr Rzheshevskii’s oeuvre

ABSTRACT This article is devoted to the study of the film scripts by Aleksandr G. Rzheshevskii (1903–1967). In contrast to the concept of the ‘emotional scenario’, which emphasises the textual structure, this article suggests a reading of his scripts in connection with the problems of an oral narrative of personal experience. Such an approach allows us to consider important creative principles for Rzheshevskii’s work, in particular the link between the film script with biographical experience and orality, both at the level of composition and in the course of the presentation of the text. As compositional markers of oral speech, the article analyses elements of poetic syntax, indefinite pronouns, onomatopoeias, blasphemy and abusive terms, which are the result of storytelling about the events of the Civil War and its consequences.