Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Anatoliy Papanov
редактор журнала «Приключенческое дело»
Lead
Sergei Filippov
Молдованцев - писатель
Pavel Tarasov
кинокритик - в прологе
Georgiy Kulikov
сценарист - в прологе
Pyotr Repnin
кинокритик - в прологе
Igor Sretensky
исчезнувший писатель
What People Are Saying
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Eldar Ryazanov's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
“Every frame feels alive. How Robinson Was Created is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
