Like most places in the world, Russia’s silver screens are dominated by Hollywood’s global blockbusters. Russia’s film industry has struggled with the financial crisis, but is also capable of producing films that can occasionally compete locally with the American machine. Once a month, SRAS provides a lineup of the top five movies in Russia by box office take—with the official Russian-language trailers from YouTube and, for those Russian films on the list, links to our Russian film site.
Below are films listed with their English and Russian titles (note that they differ sometimes), as well as how much the film has earned over the calendar month.
1. Ёлки 3—Christmas Trees 3 (Rus)—$26.7m (in January; total – $38m)
2. 47 Ronin—47 Ронинов—$26.1m
Ronin in Russian is the same word—but of course it needs to decline by number.
3. Хоббит: Пустошь Смауга—The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smau—$15.7m(in January; total—$44.8m)
Despite a late release in December, the new Hobbit movie did incredibly well in 2013, quickly grossing millions of dollars. Note that the Russian version of the title translates directly to “The Wasteland of Smaug.”
4. Любовь в большом городе 3—Love in the Big City 3 (Rus)—$15.6m
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AaqosPyPTRw
5. Невероятная жизнь Уолтера Митти—The Secret Life of Walter Mitty—$11m
For some reason Walter Mitty’s “secret life” is an “incredible/unbelievable life” (“невероятная”) in the Russian version.
