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GERMANY

A RATHER HEALTHY GERMAN

MARKET AND INDUSTRY

AS THE FFA – GERMAN FEDERAL FILM BOARD CELEBRATES 50 YEARS,
THE 2017 FIGURES FROM THE INSTITUTION AND KEY FUNDING BODY
REVEAL A HEALTHY MARKET AND INDUSTRY.

By Bénédicte Prot, Cineuropa.org

Facts &

figures

● Population: 82.5 million
● GDP per capita: $44,184
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THEATRICAL MARKET Bullyparade
● Total admissions: 122.3 N THE year marking its 50th anniversary, the FFA – market share of German productions has increased from - The Movie
million German Federal Film Board can certainly be pleased 22.7% to 23.9% (admissions) and overall, German
● Admissions per inhabitant: by the latest annual results — a testimony to the success releases brought in 28.3 million admissions (27.7 million
1.48 (1.47 in 2016) of its significant and consistent contribution through in 2016), mostly thanks to the success of a large
● Average ticket price: €8.63 I substantial funding, embracing all the players in the blockbuster, Suck Me Shakespeer 3, which beat its American
(€8.45 in 2016) industry and well complemented by active and efficient counterparts to the top spot.
● National market share regional funds. Indeed, the progress recorded last year, albeit Four German films also fared well in cinemas: Bullyparade
(admissions): 23.9% somewhat modest (culminating in what the FFA calls “a – The Movie by beloved comedian Michael “Bully” Herbig,
● Admissions for German films: slight plus”), brought the industry back to levels not achieved Detlev Buck’s Bibi & Tina 4 – Tohuwabohu Total, Katja
28.3 million in a while, and took place in a radiant landscape in terms of von Garnier’s Windstorm and the Wild Horses, and
● 3D market share (admissions): exhibition — with the highest number of active movie Wolfgang Petersen’s Four Against the Bank (starring the
21.5% theatres in 10 years, rising from 4,739 in 2016 to 4,803. popular actor and director and box office wizzard Til
● Films released: 587 Nearly all the figures for 2017 indicate an upward trend, Schweiger, as well as Matthias Schweighöfer and Herbig),
● Domestic films released: 233 starting with admissions, which reached 122.3 million with more than 1.1 million admissions although not all in
● Screens: 4,803 (121.1 million in 2016) for a total of €1,056m in box 2017 (as it was released on 25 December, 2016).
● Inhabitants per screen: office takings (€1,023m in 2016), the second highest total Overall, out of the 233 new feature films released in
17.181 turnover of all time (after 2015). Germany (244 in 2016) — 143 were fiction films, 90 were
● Admissions per screen: Even though the Top 10 only includes one national documentaries and 76 were international co-productions.
25.464 production in a sea of transatlantic blockbusters, the There was good reason to be optimistic for 2018, with

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