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Released
1999 · FILM

A Dog of Flanders

Directed by
Kevin Brodie
Written by
Ouida, Kevin Brodie
Runtime
96 min
DramaFamily

Synopsis

Poor but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large sturdy dog native to Flanders) and adopt it and nurse it back to health, naming it Patrasche, the middle name of Nello's mother Mary, who died when Nello was very young. Nello's mother was a talented artist, and like his mother, he delights in drawing, and his friend Aloise is his model and greatest fan and supporter.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

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 Annamaria Komlossy SzantoShot by Walther Van Den EndeScored by Richard FriedmanDesigned by Attila Kovacs

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$2.2M

Budget$7.0M
Worldwide gross$2.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $808K — 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.4M — 64% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,267 theaters

Also known as

  • El perro de Flandeses
  • Nello et le chien des Flandresfr

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