Cinema attendance at foreign films in Russia 2015-2022
Russian moviegoers purchased 37 million cinema tickets for foreign films in 2022, down 65 percent from the previous year. The sharp decrease was explained by the market exit of Western film distributors due to the war in Ukraine. The number of tickets sold for domestic films, by contrast, saw an increase from 2021. As a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, attendance at films produced outside of Russia declined by approximately 73 percent in 2020.
