The drama “Righteous” broke the box office record in Russia and the CIS, collecting 187.5 million rubles at the weekend. informs kinobusiness.com with a link to preliminary and unofficial data.
The plot of the picture was based on the success of the Soviet officer Nikolai Kiselev, who saved 218 Soviet Jews in August-October 1942. In 2005, Yad Vashem, Israel’s International Holocaust Research Institute, awarded Kiselev the title of Righteous Among the Nations.
In second place was the family movie “Cheburashka” with 120.5 million rubles. The third – the comedy “Fathers Against Mothers” with 69 million rubles. In the center there are two families in which parents try to reconcile the children and grandfather.
The erotic melodrama “Naughty” took the fourth place with 60 million rubles, and the fifth – the thriller “Rabies” with 47.1 million rubles.
“honest” caused rental and the previous week.