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Released
1961 · FILM

A Raisin in the Sun

The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...

Directed by
Runtime
128 min
Drama

Synopsis

Walter Lee Younger is a young man who feels trapped by his circumstances. He lives in a small apartment with his wife, son, sister, and mother, creating a sense of confinement. This changes when the family receives an unexpected financial windfall.

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How many hands made this film

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 William A LyonShot by Charles Lawton JrScored by Laurence Rosenthal

Box Office

1961 · Box office

Produced on a $1.5M budget

Production budget

$1.5M

Also known as

  • Ein Fleck in der Sonnede
  • Un lunar en el soles
  • Un raisin au soleilfr
  • Un grappolo di soleit

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