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French Sales Agents Debate Doing Business With Russia As Country Tops France’s 2023 Int’l Admissions Chart


Cinema export agency Unifrance’s annual international box office report for 2023 revealed on Tuesday that Russia was the top market in terms of admissions for French cinema last year. Given that Ru…

The Russian figures were driven by feature animation Miraculous: Ladybug and Cat Noir, The Movie, which was released on a record 1,877 screens for a French film and sold 3.53M tickets. French sales agents addressed Russia’s pole position in a panel after the presentation of the report within the framework of Unifrance’s annual Paris Rendez-vous. She cited other arguments such as that selling French and European cinema to Russia provided an alternative to government propaganda, or that cultural boycotts rarely worked.

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