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A Clockwork Orange(1971)
Released
1971 · FILM

A Clockwork Orange

A young thug in a dystopian Britain leads his gang into a spiral of violent excess, but when he's captured and subjected to a brutal experimental rehabilitation program, he must confront the limits of his own humanity.

“Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.”

Directed by
Stanley Kubrick, Derek Cracknell
Written by
Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess
Rated
FSK · FSK 16
Runtime
136 min
CrimeSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 213+ credited

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 Bill ButlerShot by John AlcottScored by Wendy CarlosDesigned by John BarryCostumes by Milena CanoneroVFX by Mark Freund

Box Office

1971 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 12× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$27.0M

Budget$2.2M
Worldwide gross$27.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • (Flemish)Clockwork Orange
  • Uhrwerk Orangede
  • La naranja mecánicaes
  • Orange mécaniquefr
  • Arancia meccanicait
  • (French)L'orange mécanique
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • CanadaDec 19, 1971
  • United StatesDec 19, 1971
  • United KingdomJan 13, 1972

Companies

ProductionWarner Bros., Polaris Productions, Hawk Films

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