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MOSCOW, Jan 13 (RHC) – Box office receipts for Russian family comedy Cheburashka have exceeded 3.5 billion rubles (about US$51.4 million), according to data released by the Russian Cinema Foundation on Friday.
With this figure, director Dimitri Diachenko’s film surpassed James Cameron’s Avatar and became the highest-grossing film in the history of Russian film distribution.
According to the Boletín Cinematográfico publication, Cheburashka achieved the record total in just 13 days of projection, surpassing the performance of the 2009 feature film Avatar, which was $51.3 million.
Previously, Cheburashka was the top-grossing Russian film, overtaking the previous leader, the comedy Holóp (Servant, in Spanish), a film directed by Klim Shippenko that was released in 2019 and grossed about $40.7 million at the domestic box office brought in.
The feature film Cheburashka, about the funny and cute Soviet-era character with big ears and fur, was brought to the big screen by Soyuzmultfilm and Yellow Black and White film studios.
In the plot of the film, Cheburashka is not a stuffed animal, as has always been depicted in cartoons, but a real fluffy animal living on an orange plantation in a distant country.
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