The read
It runs a compact 13m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
TMDB8/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Anatoliy LepinOriginal Music Composer
- Eduard AbalovDirector
- Aleksandr ZatsepinOriginal Music Composer
- Eldar RyazanovDirector
- Eldar RyazanovScreenplay
Cast
- Anatoliy Papanovредактор журнала «Приключенческое дело»
- Sergei FilippovМолдованцев - писатель
- Pavel Tarasovкинокритик - в прологе
- Georgiy Kulikovсценарист - в прологе
- Pyotr Repninкинокритик - в прологе
- Igor Sretenskyисчезнувший писатель
Stills
Themes
based on short storyshort film