''Robinson Crusoe'' (russian: Робинзон Крузо, Robinzon Kruzo) is a 1947 Soviet
adventure
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3-D film
3D films are motion pictures made to give an illusion of three-dimensional solidity, usually with the help of special glasses worn by viewers. They have existed in some form since 1915, but had been largely relegated to a niche in the motion pict ...
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Plot
The story of the film is based on the 1719 novel ''
Robinson Crusoe
''Robinson Crusoe'' () is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a tra ...
'' by
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (; born Daniel Foe; – 24 April 1731) was an English writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel ''Robinson Crusoe'', published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its ...
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Cast
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Pavel Kadochnikov - Robinson Crusoe
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Yuri Lyubimov
Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov (russian: Ю́рий Петро́вич Люби́мов; 5 October 2014) was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in 1964. He was one ...
- Friday
* Aleksandr Smiranin - Father of Robinson
* E. Sanikidze - Mother of Robinson
* V. Pavlenko - Liza
Background
The film is the first
glasses-free stereoscopic feature film,
the first Soviet 3-D
feature film
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Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ɪjzʲɪnˈʂtʲejn, 2=Sergey Mikhaylovich Eyzenshteyn; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenw ...
wrote about the film and its use of 3-D in 1948: "Will the cinema of the future be stereoscopic? Will tomorrow follow today?"
[ and further: "Mankind has for centuries been moving toward stereoscopic cinema... The bourgeois West is either indifferent or even hostilely ironical toward the problems of stereoscopic cinema.".]
References
External links
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1947 films
1940s adventure drama films
1940s 3D films
Films based on Robinson Crusoe
1940s Russian-language films
Soviet adventure drama films
Soviet black-and-white films
1947 drama films
Soviet 3D films
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