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How Robinson Was Created

1961 · 13 min

Comedy

8.0
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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.

Crew

  • Director Eldar Ryazanov
  • Director Eduard Abalov
  • Screenplay Eldar Ryazanov
  • Story Yevgeni Petrov
  • Story Ilya Ilf
  • Director of Photography Savva Kulish
  • Director of Photography Leonid Kraynenkov

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Crew

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🔥 Hot takes

warming up the wall…

Intermission

GO DEEPER

Turn the obscurity dial up. There's a lot further down to go.

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