Cinemarket, or the Russian film industry in 'Mission Possible'

Europe - Asia Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 871-896

  Beumers, Birgit ^a  

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FILM; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MEDIA INDUSTRY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0032853070     PISSN: 09668136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09668139998750     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. N. Venzher, D. Dondurei & V. Dubitskaya, 'Kinematograf v Rossii: problemy vyzhivaniya', pp. 7-60, in N. Venzher & G. Reisner (comp.), Partnery '93 (Moscow, 1993), p. 17.
2. N. Venzher, D. Dondurei & V. Dubitskaya, 'Kinematograf v Rossii: problemy vyzhivaniya', pp. 7-60, in N. Venzher & G. Reisner (comp.), Partnery '93 (Moscow, 1993), p. 17.
3. Gennadii Dadamyan, Sotsial' no-ekonomicheskie problemy teatral' nogo iskusstva (Moscow, 1982), p. 76, and Daniil Dondurei (ed.), Otechestvennyi kinematograf: strategii vyzhivaniya (Moscow, 1991), p. 22. The figures for cinema tickets per capita are affected by the practice of selling two tickets for films consisting of two 'parts' (i.e. longer than 1000 metres).
4. Gennadii Dadamyan, Sotsial' no-ekonomicheskie problemy teatral' nogo iskusstva (Moscow, 1982), p. 76, and Daniil Dondurei (ed.), Otechestvennyi kinematograf: strategii vyzhivaniya (Moscow, 1991), p. 22. The figures for cinema tickets per capita are affected by the practice of selling two tickets for films consisting of two 'parts' (i.e. longer than 1000 metres).
5. Miroslava Segida, 'Segida-Info', Domashnyaya sinemateka, p. 6.
6. Ibid. Numbers were at a record low during 1920-23 and again from 1937 and 1953.
7. Federal Law on Cinema (126-FZ), Article 7.
8. Daniil Dondurei, interview with the author, Moscow, 10 July 1997.
9. Goskino is listed as a founder (uchreditel') for all these organisations.
10. The Federal Law on Cinema (Federal'nyi zakon: O gosudarstvennoi podderzhke kinematografii) was published in Rossiiskaya gazeta, 29 August 1996.
11. For a full account of the V Congress see Anna Lawton, Kinoglasnost: Soviet Cinema in Our Time (Cambridge, 1992). The transcripts of the Congress were published in Iskusstvo kino, 1986, 10, pp. 4-125.
12. For a full account of the V Congress see Anna Lawton, Kinoglasnost: Soviet Cinema in Our Time (Cambridge, 1992). The transcripts of the Congress were published in Iskusstvo kino, 1986, 10, pp. 4-125.
13. Cf. Daniil Dondurei, 'Rynok vmesto sobesa', Iskusstvo kino, 1996, 10, pp. 28-37.
14. Compare with Puttnam's suggestions for the rescue of the European Film Industry to the Club of European Producers in December 1993 in David Puttnam, The Undeclared War (London, 1997), p. 341 and with the structures of the French National Centre for Cinematography (CNC) discussed in Angus Finney, The State of European Cinema (London, 1996), pp. 114-138.
15. Compare with Puttnam's suggestions for the rescue of the European Film Industry to the Club of European Producers in December 1993 in David Puttnam, The Undeclared War (London, 1997), p. 341 and with the structures of the French National Centre for Cinematography (CNC) discussed in Angus Finney, The State of European Cinema (London, 1996), pp. 114-138.
16. Nikita Mikhalkov's speech to the IV Congress has been published (in excerpts) in the Bulletin of the Gorky Studio, Kinostudiya Gor'kogo: Informatsionnyi byulleten, No. 21 (37), 3 June 1998, pp. 6-7 and, with other proceedings and reactions to the congress, under the title 'Um i vlast', sila i mudrost' ...', Iskusstvo kino, 1998, 8, pp. 5-25.
17. Nikita Mikhalkov's speech to the IV Congress has been published (in excerpts) in the Bulletin of the Gorky Studio, Kinostudiya Gor'kogo: Informatsionnyi byulleten, No. 21 (37), 3 June 1998, pp. 6-7 and, with other proceedings and reactions to the congress, under the title 'Um i vlast', sila i mudrost' ...', Iskusstvo kino, 1998, 8, pp. 5-25.
18. Rustam Ibragimbekov, 'My ne proigraem' (interview with Elena Stishova), Izvestiya, 5 November 1998.
19. Federal Law on Cinema (126-FZ), Rossiiskaya gazeta, 29 August 1996.
20. The new Penal Code of 1997 changes this situation with article 146 (breach of authors' rights) and article 171 (illegal business).
21. L. Furikov, 'Ne do zhiru ...', Kinomekhanik, 1996, 4, p. 5.
22. See D. Dondurei, 'Artistic Culture', in D. Shalin (ed.), Russian Culture at the Crossroads (Boulder, CO, 1996), pp. 268-269.
23. Bulletin of the Gorky Studio, No. 12, 3 December 1997.
24. Miroslava Segida, 'Segida-Info', Iskusstvo kino, 1996, 4, p. 76.
25. DD statistical information, Lyum'er-ekspress, 2, May 1996, p. 18.
26. Finney, The State of European Cinema, pp. 122-126.
27. See Kinomekhanik, 1996, 12, pp. 14-15; Lyum'er-ekspress, 0, February 1995, p. 7.
28. See Kinomekhanik, 1996, 12, pp. 14-15; Lyum'er-ekspress, 0, February 1995, p. 7.
29. 'Sekrety bez obmanov', Premiere, 1997, 3, p. 36.
30. Kinoglaz, 1995, 1, p. 5.
31. D. Dondurei, 'Rynok vizual'nogo udovol'stviya', Ekspert, 10 November 1997.
32. DD survey published in Lyum'er ekspress, 1, July 1995, p. 23 and Iskusstvo kino, 1995, 4, p. 53.
33. DD survey published in Lyum'er ekspress, 1, July 1995, p. 23 and Iskusstvo kino, 1995, 4, p. 53.
34. A film-maker would make his/her debut film at the age of 26 in 1985, while in 1996 debuts are made by 37-year-olds. See D. Dondurei, 'Esteticheskaya funktsiya rossiiskogo kino protiv kul'turnoi', Lyum'er ekspress, 2, p. 11 and 'Rynok vmesto sobesa', Iskusstvo kino, 1996, 10, p. 34.
35. A film-maker would make his/her debut film at the age of 26 in 1985, while in 1996 debuts are made by 37-year-olds. See D. Dondurei, 'Esteticheskaya funktsiya rossiiskogo kino protiv kul'turnoi', Lyum'er ekspress, 2, p. 11 and 'Rynok vmesto sobesa', Iskusstvo kino, 1996, 10, p. 34.
36. See D. Dondurei, 'Posle imperii: kinorynok po-russki', Iskusstvo kino, 1993, 11, pp. 3-9.
37. For a full list of production and distribution companies, see Partnery '97: kino, TV, video (Moscow, 1996).
38. Bulletin of the Gorky Studio, No. 5, 15 October 1997.
39. Bulletin of the Gorky Studio, No. 4, 8 October 1997.
40. Data from Goskino, quoted in Venzher, Dondurei & Dubitskaya, 'Kinematograf v Rossii: problemy vyzhivaniya', p. 17.
41. Natalia Venzher, 'Ekonomika vyzhivaniya zastavlyaet kinoteatry zabyt' o prokate', Lyum'er ekspress, 0, p. 19.
42. 'Poidut li moskvichi v kinoteatr?', Lyum'er ekspress, in Kinoatel'e, 3, pp. 66-67.
43. Ibid.
44. http://russia.agama.com/r_club/cinema. This excludes the last film released in 1998, Rogozhkin's comedy Osobennosti natsional' noi rybalki (Peculiarities of National Fishing).
45. Furikov, pp. 6-7.
46. D. Dondurei, 'Nazad, v kinoteatry', Iskusstvo kino, 1997, 7, pp. 5-6.
47. N. Venzher, 'Vyzhivat' ili zhit' - vot v chem vopros', Iskusstvo kino, 1997, 7, pp. 7-12.
48. 'General'noe soglashenie o sotrudnichestve' (Goskino and Media Most), Kinomekhanik, 1998, 2, pp. 7-9; the plans for the refurbishment of the October cinema are mentioned in the report 'God reshitel'nykh peremen', ibid, p. 5
49. 'General'noe soglashenie o sotrudnichestve' (Goskino and Media Most), Kinomekhanik, 1998, 2, pp. 7-9; the plans for the refurbishment of the October cinema are mentioned in the report 'God reshitel'nykh peremen', ibid, p. 5
50. Reports at the Conference on Video Piracy held during the First International Film Festival 'Eurasia', Almaty, 4-10 October 1998.
51. Sergei Solov'ev at Jack Valenti's Press Conference on Anti-Piracy, Moscow, 22 July 1997. See also Kinoglaz, 1997, 18, p. 8, which provides the following data: '120 million blank video tapes were imported in 1996; of these, 10% were sold as blank tapes, while 90% were purchased by video pirates. 100 million tapes were sold by video pirates, 40 million through legal video distributors. The yearly turnover of the pirate market is $423.5 million, that of the pirate and legal market together $700 million'.
52. Conference on Video Piracy, Moscow, 23 July 1997.
53. For the importance of the audio-visual market in the GATT/WTO negotiations see Puttnam, The Undeclared War, pp. 3-8, 338-347, 356-359.
54. Reports at the Conference on Video Piracy, Moscow, 23 July 1997. The example given was that of a bribe being paid to a person in the studio who would pass on a copy to a stewardess, who would deliver the tape in Moscow; the film would be on the illegal market within 72 hours.
55. Ellen Mickiewicz, Changing Channels (Oxford, 1997).
56. Anna Franklin, 'The New Czars', Screen International, 1168, 24-30 July 1998, pp. 10-13.
57. Dondurei, 'Rynok vmesto sobesa', p. 32.
58. D. Dondurei, 'Esli tvorcheskaya intelligentsiya ne izmenit sebe, to ostanetsya v izolyatsii', Russkii telegraf, 25 October 1997.
59. Ibid.
60. D. Dondurei, 'Komu vygoden beznadega', Znanie-sila, September 1997. See also Kirill Razlogov's remarks on the nostalgia for Soviet times in his article, 'Vpered v proshloe', Iskusstvo kino, 1997, 3, pp. 34-36.
61. D. Dondurei, 'Komu vygoden beznadega', Znanie-sila, September 1997. See also Kirill Razlogov's remarks on the nostalgia for Soviet times in his article, 'Vpered v proshloe', Iskusstvo kino, 1997, 3, pp. 34-36.
62. Nikita Mikhalkov, IV Congress, 29 May 1998.
63. Ibid.
64. There are speculations about Mikhalkov's possible candidature in the presidential election in 2000.
65. Daniil Dondurei's comment on the IV Congress, Iskusstvo kino, 1998, 8, pp. 24-25.