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.

Cast

Anatoliy Papanov, Sergei Filippov, Pavel Tarasov, Georgiy Kulikov, Pyotr Repnin, Igor Sretensky

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What is "How Robinson Was Created" about?

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.

When was "How Robinson Was Created" released?

How Robinson Was Created was released in 1961.

Who stars in "How Robinson Was Created"?

The cast includes Anatoliy Papanov, Sergei Filippov, Pavel Tarasov, Georgiy Kulikov.