How Robinson Was Created

8.0
196113m

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.

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Photo of Anatoliy Papanov

Anatoliy Papanov

редактор журнала «Приключенческое дело»

Photo of Sergei Filippov

Sergei Filippov

Молдованцев - писатель

Photo of Pavel Tarasov

Pavel Tarasov

кинокритик - в прологе

Photo of Georgiy Kulikov

Georgiy Kulikov

сценарист - в прологе

Photo of Pyotr Repnin

Pyotr Repnin

кинокритик - в прологе

Photo of Igor Sretensky

Igor Sretensky

исчезнувший писатель

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