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Inside the life of the Coen Brothers

The Coen Brothers are among America's most prolific and inventive film directors, and are releasing a new film in November.

A Serious Man will join the brothers' long list of successes, which include the Oscar winners Fargo and No country for Old Men, to Raising Arizona, Barton Fink and Blood Simple.

The new film tells the story of the unbearable pressures on a Jewish academic in the mid-west in the sixties.

Evan Davis spoke to Joel and Ethan Coen about their new movie, and whether the film was true to their own Jewish upbringing in the American Midwest.

This is an extended version of the broadcast interview.

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