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.
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> Eduard Abalov (Director)
> Eldar Ryazanov (Director)
> A. Vanichkin (Assistant Director)
> Leonid Kraynenkov (Director of Photography)
> Savva Kulish (Director of Photography)
> Lev Kushelevich (Production Director)
> Ilya Ilf (Story)
> Yevgeni Petrov (Story)
> Ivan Pyryev (Creative Producer)
> Eldar Ryazanov (Screenplay)
> Yelena Skidanenko (Script Editor)