How Robinson Was Created

How Robinson Was Created — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 18, 1961
• Runtime
• 13 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Eldar Ryazanov

How Robinson Was Created — Cast

Anatoliy Papanov редактор журнала «Приключенческое дело» Sergei Filippov Молдованцев - писатель Pavel Tarasov кинокритик - в прологе Georgiy Kulikov сценарист - в прологе Pyotr Repnin кинокритик - в прологе Igor Sretensky исчезнувший писатель