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Released
1984 · FILM

A Christmas Carol

A new powerful presentation of the most loved ghost story of all time!

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Runtime
101 min
DramaFantasyTV MovieFamily

Synopsis

On Christmas Eve, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by spirits who show him the bleakness of his life, the chances he squandered in his youth, the harshness of his present behavior, and the grim future that awaits him if he does not change. Through these encounters, Scrooge confronts the story of his own descent into bitterness and greed, and is given a choice: to continue on his current path toward death or to seek redemption.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Peter TannerShot by Tony ImiScored by Nick BicatDesigned by Roger Murray Leach

Also known as

  • Charles Dickens’ Weihnachtsgeschichtede
  • Eine Weihnachtsgeschichtede

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