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Article: RUSSIA: RUSSIAN FILM INDUSTRY IN (THE) CAN(NES)?
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- June 23, 2002
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In its Soviet heyday, the Mosfilm studios produced 100 films a year, but today it is lucky to make 30 movies, reported Reuters on 17 June. Nowadays, Mosfilm covers costs by making TV ads, low-end TV movies and music. According to Igor Kallistov of the Russian Ministry of Culture Department of Cinema Regulation and Development, "only 7 percent of films are Russian" in state-subsidized movie theaters, while in private cinemas the percentage is "2 to 3 percent," according to Reuters, although half of the films shown on Russian TV are Russian, Kallistov claims. Ivan Dykhovichny, who directed the film "Moscow Parade" with German chanteuse Ute Lemper, told the daily "Izvestiya" ...