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Released
2012 · FILM

A Coffee in Berlin

Aimless dropout Niko roams a single chaotic day through Berlin’s streets, seeking purpose while bizarre encounters force him to confront the emptiness of his own existence.

“No job. No girl. No coffee.”

Directed by
Jan Ole Gerster
Written by
Jan Ole Gerster
Runtime
88 min
Language
DE
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

Niko, a twenty-something college dropout, lives for the moment as he drifts through the streets of Berlin, curiously observing everyone around him and oblivious to his growing status as an outsider. Then on one fateful day, through a series of absurdly amusing encounters, everything changes.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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 Anja SiemensShot by Philipp KirsamerScored by Cherilyn MacneilDesigned by Juliane Friedrich

Box Office

2012 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.2× 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

$2.8M

Budget$300K
Worldwide gross$2.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Oh Boyde
  • A Coffee in Berlinen

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