How Robinson Was Created
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
as редактор журнала «Приключенческое дело»
Sergei Filippov
as Молдованцев - писатель
Pavel Tarasov
as кинокритик - в прологе
Georgiy Kulikov
as сценарист - в прологе
Pyotr Repnin
as кинокритик - в прологе
Igor Sretensky
as исчезнувший писатель
