How Robinson Was Created

Как создавался Робинзон

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.

Director

Eldar Ryazanov

Director

Eduard Abalov

Screenplay

Eldar Ryazanov

Music

Aleksandr Zatsepin

Status

Released

Release date

18/09/1961

Original language

Russian