How Robinson Was Created
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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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Cast
6 people
Anatoliy Papanov
редактор журнала «Приключенческое дело»
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Sergei Filippov
Молдованцев - писатель
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12 Chairs
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Pavel Tarasov
кинокритик - в прологе
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Foma Gordeyev
Georgiy Kulikov
сценарист - в прологе
Known for
Carnival Night
The Cranes Are Flying
Pyotr Repnin
кинокритик - в прологе
Known for
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
Igor Sretensky
исчезнувший писатель
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Foma Gordeyev
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Eldar Ryazanov Director · Eduard Abalov Director Ilya Ilf Story
First release September 18, 1961 · Produced in Russia · Original title Как создавался Робинзон
Production
Mosfilm
Production
Russia
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Original title
Как создавался Робинзон
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · September 18, 1961
Theatrical · Goskino USSR
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