“Odyssey of Gaspar Noah in Russia”: this was how the Russian distributor Arthouse and the magazine Moskvichka He described the visit of the French filmmaker to Moscow in August 2024, capturing the moment with a photo in the Red Square. The director of Irreversible (2002), expressing his “great happiness to be in Moscow”, visited the Russian capital to celebrate Kristina Potupchik’s birthday, an editor and propagandist financed by the Kremlin, and to present her film Vortex (2021) to the Moscow audience.
As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year, Russia remains one of the most important markets for French films worldwide. In 2023, it was the main international market for French productions, with 7.1 million admissions and 21.7 million euros in box office income. In 2024, Russia fell to second place behind Germany, with at least 60 distributed French films and 3.7 million tickets sold, according to figures released in January by Uniferrance, the organization promotes French films International and the affairs of the few insignificant.
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