How Robinson Was Created

Overview

The film is based on the feuilleton of the same name by I. Ilf and E. Petrov. A writer named Moldovantsev delivers a thrilling Soviet‐style Robinson Crusoe adventure on deadline, only to have his editor insist on adding a local party chairman, freed ex‐members, an activist collector, a housing committee and even a meeting table, bell and ledger washed ashore. Reluctantly he complies, so far that he jettisons Robinson himself as an unjustified weakling, transforming his novel into an absurd manifesto of bureaucratic excess.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 18, 1961

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Mosfilm

Cast

Pyotr Repnin,Igor Sretensky,Anatoliy Papanov,Pavel Tarasov,Sergei Filippov,Georgiy Kulikov

Director

Eldar Ryazanov,Eduard Abalov

Writer

Yevgeni Petrov,Eldar Ryazanov,Elena Skidanenko,Ivan Pyryev,Ilya Ilf

Cinematography

Leonid Kraynenkov,Savva Kulish

Music

Aleksandr Zatsepin,Anatoliy Lepin

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt13958882