Scrolling through the favourite blogs I stumbled upon this entry by a Canadian Estonian "Singing Revolution Box Office receipts", which shows some kind of North American box office records.
See the picture (here).
The Singing Revolution holds 10th place. At first glance I didn't find it that much interesting, but then I looked at the other titles in the table, like "Juno" (Comedy), 1st place, "I Am Legend" (Science fiction/adventure), 2nd and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Romance?), 3rd, I realized that this is general table with all movies, it is not just documentaries/alternative, which is represented. Thus the Singing Revolution, a documentary, more precisely historic documentary is actually competing with mainstream movies like science fictions and comedies and is able to get into 10 best!
See the picture (here).
The Singing Revolution holds 10th place. At first glance I didn't find it that much interesting, but then I looked at the other titles in the table, like "Juno" (Comedy), 1st place, "I Am Legend" (Science fiction/adventure), 2nd and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Romance?), 3rd, I realized that this is general table with all movies, it is not just documentaries/alternative, which is represented. Thus the Singing Revolution, a documentary, more precisely historic documentary is actually competing with mainstream movies like science fictions and comedies and is able to get into 10 best!
I doubt any of you occasionally watch Russian TV channels like I do, running sometimes hour-long shows about "low culture in America", such as the ones by the famous, talented Russian humorist Mihhail Zadornov (see his Russian Wikipedia entry or his English Wikipedia entry):
Zadornov is particularly famous for his satirical comparisons of Russians and nationals of other countries, especially Americans and Germans. He has rescinded his visa to the United States as a protest to the American athletes' flag-waving behavior at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002.
But with all self-proclaimed Russian "cultural supremacy" over "undereducated Americans" I doubt a documentary would make it into 10 top movies in Russian cinemas.
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