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How Robinson Was Created (1961)

How Robinson Was Created (1961)

Comedy
Release Date: 1961, September 18
Directors: Eldar Ryazanov, Eduard Abalov
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm
Cast: Sergei Filippov, Anatoliy Papanov, Georgiy Kulikov, Pyotr Repnin, Pavel Tarasov, Igor Sretensky

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.

Keywords:

short film based on short story