Ida at the Forefront of the French Box Office
The Paweł Pawlikowski film Ida has been ranked as the sixth most popular Polish film of all time in French cinemas.
Paweł Pawlikowski's work is still doing well at the French box office. In the week between 26th February and 4th March the film was watched by nearly 76,000 people. In total, after 3 weeks the picture has attracted 288,030 viewers.
This result now puts Ida at the forefront of the biggest Polish hits in French cinemas. The list below shows the most-viewed Polish films according to box office sales.
1 – "Ostatni etap" (1948 – Wanda Jakubowska) = 2 797 511 viewers
2 – "Ulica graniczna" (1948 – Aleksander Ford) = 985 573 viewers
3 – "Człowiek z żelaza" / “Man of Iron” (1981 – Andrzej Wajda) = 378 148 viewers
4 – "Piątka z ulicy Barskiej" (1955 – Aleksander Ford) = 367 336 viewers
5 – "Dyrygent" (1980 – Andrzej Wajda) = 309 014 viewers
6 – "Ida" (2014 – Paweł Pawlikowski) = 288 030 viewers
7 – „Dekalog” (1990 – Krzysztof Kieślowski) = 276 790 viewers
8 – "Człowiek z marmuru" / "Man of Marble" (1978 – Andrzej Wajda) = 276 552 viewers
9- "Miłość w Niemczech" (1983 – Andrzej Wajda) = 271 463 viewers
10 – "Panny z Wilka" (1979 – Andrzej Wajda) = 228 555 viewers
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We congratulate the good choice of the French audience. In the first five days since the theatrical release, the film broke the record audience for foreign non-English speaking films – say the producers of Ida
The film entered French cinemas on 12th February, 2014. Memento Films is the French distributor of Ida.
Source: The Polish Filmmakers Association, ed. and translated: Katarzyna Maksimiuk, 7.03.2014
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