In this 1913 burlesque comedy, hare-brained Robinet remains faithful to his reputation as a trouble maker. Even in the most improbable situations, like in a boxing ring, this funny character seems determined and ready for anything to have the upper hand.

It was Marcel Fabre, from his real name Marcel Perez, a Spanish comedian, who put Robinet's costume on for the first time in 1910. This comedian with a number of stage names came from the school of the circus where he started his career in the persona of an acrobatic clown.

From the first opus, Robinet ha il sonno duro, his character became a comic reference and the actor immediately experienced fame in Italy. At the end of the golden age of Latin cinema in 1915, he crossed the Atlantic and continued his career in the United States of America where he imported his character that became Tweedledum.

The creation of Robinet was the wish of Arturo Ambrosio, producer and founder of the Ambrosio Studios. While Italian silent film was at its pinnacle, Ambrosio wanted to rival the Itala and Cinès studios, producers of the Tontolini and Cretinetti characters, two new heroes of burlesque from Turin.

Hoping to become a success, Ambrosio hired both Marcel Fabre to incarnate Robinet, and Luigi Maggi, a young director, to whom we notably owe the first version of the famous Last Days of Pompeii, in 1908.

This short film, one of the last films staging Robinet, re-used the most striking symbols of burlesque. Fights, falls and the settling of scores were honoured, just like boxing, regularly used by cinema to give it a comic character.