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
Eldar Ryazanov
Director, Screenplay
Eduard Abalov
Director
Yelena Skidanenko
Script Editor
Yevgeni Petrov
Story
Ilya Ilf
Story
Savva Kulish
Director of Photography
Leonid Kraynenkov
Director of Photography
A. Vanichkin
Assistant Director
Aleksandr Kuznetsov
Production Design
Mariya Zhukova
Costume Designer
Vyacheslav Leshchyov
Sound Designer
Aleksandr Zatsepin
Original Music Composer
Anatoliy Lepin
Original Music Composer
Lev Kushelevich
Production Director
Ivan Pyryev
Creative Producer
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