While cinemas worldwide have spent the better part of this year shuttered or operating at limited capacity, few film industries have felt the pain quite like Russia’s, which generates roughly 80% of its revenues from theatrical receipts, according to Evgenia Markova, head of the Russian film promotion body Roskino.
But while local profits have plummeted, Russian producers continue to find growing interest from foreign buyers, with Markova pointing to strong sales at Mipcom and at the Key Buyers Event, a virtual showcase for domestic productions that took place this summer.
“The Russian industry has learned to adapt to all the new circumstances,” she says. “It became more flexible, and more responsive to the needs of the global market.” A number of high-profile Russian projects will be introduced to foreign buyers during AFM, beginning with “Major Grom and the Plague Doctor,” a big-screen adaptation of the hit comic-book franchise from Bubble Comics.
But while local profits have plummeted, Russian producers continue to find growing interest from foreign buyers, with Markova pointing to strong sales at Mipcom and at the Key Buyers Event, a virtual showcase for domestic productions that took place this summer.
“The Russian industry has learned to adapt to all the new circumstances,” she says. “It became more flexible, and more responsive to the needs of the global market.” A number of high-profile Russian projects will be introduced to foreign buyers during AFM, beginning with “Major Grom and the Plague Doctor,” a big-screen adaptation of the hit comic-book franchise from Bubble Comics.
- 11/9/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Konstantin Khabensky’s directorial debut screens at the market on May 10.
Russian actor Konstantin Khabensky’s directorial debut Sobibor has sealed key territory sales in advance of its screening in the Cannes market. Sobibor is produced by Cinema Production and Gleb Fetisov of Fetisoff Illusion (Loveless).
It tells the story of the incredible heroism by Jewish prisoners in the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland in 1943, when Soviet-Jewish prisoner-of-war Alexander Pechersky spearheaded a successful uprising and escape from the camp. Eleven German SS officers were killed during the action, and over 50 Sobibor escapees survived (including Pechersky).
Khabensky himself plays Pechersky, while...
Russian actor Konstantin Khabensky’s directorial debut Sobibor has sealed key territory sales in advance of its screening in the Cannes market. Sobibor is produced by Cinema Production and Gleb Fetisov of Fetisoff Illusion (Loveless).
It tells the story of the incredible heroism by Jewish prisoners in the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland in 1943, when Soviet-Jewish prisoner-of-war Alexander Pechersky spearheaded a successful uprising and escape from the camp. Eleven German SS officers were killed during the action, and over 50 Sobibor escapees survived (including Pechersky).
Khabensky himself plays Pechersky, while...
- 5/10/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
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